A HISTOKY OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT 

 IN THE NINETEENTH CENTUEY. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 I, 



BEHIND the panorama of external events and changes i. 



Thought, 



which history unfolds before our view there lies the 

 hidden world of desires and motives, of passions and 

 energies, which produced or accompanied them; behind 

 the busy scenes of Life lie the inner regions of Thought. 

 Only when facts and events cease to be unconnected, when 

 they appear to us linked together according to some de- 

 sign and purpose, leading us back to some originating 

 cause or forward to some defined end, can we speak of 

 History in the sense which the word has acquired in 

 modern language; and similarly do the hidden motives, 

 desires, and energies which underlie or accompany the ex- 

 ternal events require to be somehow connected, to present 

 themselves in some order and continuity, before we are 

 able to grasp and record them. That which has made 

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