THE RATIONALE OF PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 773 



Now although this line of thought indicates a real 

 advance in psychological and logical research, it is 

 not this alone or principally that interests us in 

 this connection ; it is that this introspective view 37. 

 affords a more hopeful prospect of carrying out that reconcma- 

 unification of thought which is the main object of scientific 



_ _ _ and religi- 



philosophy, that mediating and harmonising task which ous views. 

 was indicated in the Preface to Lotze's ' Microcosmus ' 

 and forms the fundamental conception upon which the 

 whole of this History has been written. This concep- 

 tion was clearly indicated in the general Introduction 

 (vol. i. p. 71 sqq.) According to this, philosophy oc- 

 cupies an intermediate position between the scientific 

 and the religious view of the world, or, to express it in 

 other words, between that world which we term ex- 

 ternal, physical, and objective, and that other world 

 which we popularly oppose to it as the internal, mental, 

 or subjective world. 



The difficulty of effecting this mediation or unification 

 of the two regions of thought, if we adopt the natural- 

 istic position, we found to lie in the circumstance that 

 we could not define the second or subjective world 

 in objective terms, that we could not, roughly speaking, 

 find a geometrical location for it in the circumference 

 of spatial existence ; and the very fact that we are 

 unable to do so has led to the seeming contrast or 

 opposition in which the two worlds stand to each other. 



in ' Philosophical Remains,' ed. 

 Bain & Whittaker, 1894, pp. 63-74. 

 W. Dilthey, ' Vom Ursprung 

 unseres Glaubens an die Realitiit 

 der Aussenwelt, Sitzungsberichte, 

 Berlin Academy,' 1890, pp. 977- 

 1022. 



E. Mach, ' Die Analyse der Emp- 

 findungen,' 1st ed., 1886, and several 

 enlarged editions. 



G. F. Stout, 'Analytic Psychol- 

 ogy,' 2 vols., 1902. 



F. H. Bradley, ' Essays on Truth 

 and Reality,' 1914, 



