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many, the fundamental and more important problem : 

 the problem of the Spirit. After we have learnt how 

 philosophical thought in the nineteenth century has 

 dealt with this problem, we shall be better prepared to 

 deal with the second problem : the problem of human 

 Society. For this has been considered by some thinkers 

 to be soluble only after the former problem has been 

 satisfactorily dealt with, whilst another and growing 

 school of thought is labouring to place it upon an 

 independent foundation as an inquiry to be carried on 

 inductively by th combined methods of the natural and 

 the historical sciences. 



