750 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



life, human history, and human culture, and require to 

 be equally recognised. He terms these, the World of 

 Things and the World of Values. 



A conviction, he holds, must be arrived at which per- 

 mits us to harmonise these two realms of thought, to 

 remove the many apparent contradictions and difficulties. 

 It is also clear that he considered that the modern mind 

 possesses already, in a theistic view of the world and life, 

 such a conviction ; he is, as he says, old - fashioned 

 enough to believe in the existence of Religion, and he 

 does not disguise his belief that the ultimate unifying 

 thought is a concern of the personal character, and that 

 philosophy can do no more than defend the position most 

 clearly expressed in Christian doctrine against the 

 many objections and doubts which inevitably spring 

 up through the progress of scientific thought and the 

 practical experience of life. 



The unique situation of Lotze with regard to the natu- 

 ral and the mental sciences is not limited to an acquaint- 

 ance with the results of these two great departments of 

 Knowledge as they existed in his time. Such a know- 

 ledge has been the property of other thinkers before and 

 after him : but, since the time of Leibniz, not one of 

 them had gone through an equally severe training on 

 both sides, a training which we may, following the 

 popular usage, call a mathematical and classical training ; 

 no one has, since the time of Leibniz, been able to 

 reason with the same assurance on the lines of the 

 exact as well as on those of the historical sciences. 

 This means that Lotze grasped the principles and 

 methods of the mathematical and natural sciences just 



