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his labour would not be lost. The present writer has 

 too strong a belief in human free will to be confident 

 that the supposed student's views would be thereby, as a 

 matter of course, fundamentally modified, but is quite 

 certain that his power and depth as a philosopher would 

 be very greatly augmented, and, irrelevant matters being 

 removed, controversy would be brought more aptly to 

 an issue. 



It may be asked, however, Wherein do you see actual 

 signs of such a revival of philosophy ? It may be an- 

 swered, that amongst other indications the writer has pos- 

 itive information of the advance of the peripatetic philo- 

 sophy in Germany ; that Professor Ueberweg himself bore 

 witness to such a movement ; that Mr. Spencer's own 

 writings tend to force it on ; that Mr. Lewes' last book * 

 is calculated to drive it forward at an accelerated rate; 

 that its course is facilitated by the philosophy of Hart- 



* See his " Problems of Life and Mind ; " we find there good peri- 

 pateticism as to the soul and body unconsciously set forth at pp. 112, 

 156, 1 60, and 161 ; as to the distinction between men and brutes, at pp. 

 124, 153-I55> I 57, 160, 169, 250, and 296 ; as to universals, at p. 136 ; 

 as to the existence of "potential" knowledge, at p. 243 ; as to the 

 sort of existence possessed by " co-ordination," "life," and "mind," at 

 p. 281 ; as to terminology, at p. 336 ; as to the relation of the ideal to the 

 real order, at p. 342 ; as to mathematical intuitions, at p. 398 ; as to 

 the relations between imagination and conception, at p. 420. Even as 

 to logic, as an art, he goes wrong rightly. Thus he says (p. 77), 

 " There is no more an art of reasoning than there is an art of breath- 

 ing or digesting." But peripatetic logic is an art in so far as it is 



