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 "the dark." 



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: "Where ignorance is bliss, 

 'tis folly to be wise." 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. 



