INTRODUCTORY 



Biographical History of Philosophy, I cannot say, 

 but we may recognize in his work the great vindi 

 cation, in a blaze of light, of that ancient Greek 

 whom his contemporaries, for his obscurity, sur- 

 named &quot;the dark.&quot; 



Were this assertion of ceaseless and universal 

 change the last word of the evolutionary philos 

 ophy, we might well subscribe to that saying in 

 which is crystallized the objection of all ages to the 

 advance of knowledge: &quot;Where ignorance is bliss, 

 tis folly to be wise.&quot; But it is not so. We have 

 yet to examine the profound significance of that 

 term phenomena. The panentheism - - the doc 

 trine of all -in -God which Spencer based upon 

 the verities of assured knowledge, thus following 

 Athanasius and Spinoza, if not, indeed, the found 

 er of the former s church and the greatest of the 

 latter s race, declares to us, with a voice in which 

 the centuries unite, that there is a changeless unity 

 immanent in this our impermanence. 



