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of its native country. On the other side, it is precisely 

 where it had met with such an easy solution, in France 

 itself, that this supreme problem is now most iriMHialj 

 fm^Tfff'f* over by ^"^"g thinkers. Of Ihi* we need not 

 take farther notice in this connection, as it was folly 

 demit with at the end of the foregoing chapter. 



I hare had so frequently to notice the fragmentary 

 and inconclusive character of philosophic thought at the 

 end of our period that I cannot conclude without briefly 

 noticing the indirajhiMi particularly in British thought 

 of the advoui of * new spirit. The indications I refer 

 to point to a decided change in the position which the 

 philosophic mind is likely to take up in the near future, 

 with the object of again attaining to a greater unity 

 and harmony of thought., litai itiiig itself from the fetters 

 of too much criticiEm and acquiring that nf^f-vfmfittfnpt* 

 which is inilinnonaihlr to any constructive effort. This 

 was only hifft^j traceable or pflrhapB completely hiM^ 

 to the external view at the end of our period. Since 

 that t""**, however, the tendencies inherent in recent 

 thought have become clearer, and in so far as they bear 

 upon the subject of this fhaptrr the unification of 

 Knowledge and the unity of Thought I will attempt 

 laifllf to point them out. In doing so, I shall confine 

 myself to a few l<*Hing thinlnef^ dispensing with a 

 survey of the extensive literature in which similar 

 tendencies are manifest, and this for two reasons. 



first, because this literature is mainly interested in 

 special problems, employing highly technical fo*, and 

 has in consequence not yet entered into the general body 

 of thought. Secondly, because my knowledge of this 



