298 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



" Pragmatism." Whereas all the theories of knowledge 

 emanating from Locke and Kant, both in England and 

 abroad, treated the problem of knowledge by correlating 

 Knowing and Being, or by contrasting Truth and Error, 

 the new turn given to the treatment of the subject by 

 the introduction of the term " Pragmatism " fastens upon 

 the correlation of Knowing and Doing ; leading us back 

 to an early period of Greek philosophy. 

 7. Both in Germany and England, where the problems 



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in logic and o f knowledge have been, in recent times, independently 

 attacked, leading to original theories, these discussions 

 were preceded by minute and extensive logical and 

 psychological studies ; as witness the very large num- 

 ber of treatises pertaining to Logic and Psychology 

 which had been published in both countries before the 

 middle of the century. French philosophical literature, 

 on the other hand, had during the period which preceded 

 what we may call the " return to Kant," contributed no 

 important works upon either Logic or Psychology. 



It is indeed a remarkable literary phenomenon, well 

 worthy of examination, that the nation whose language 

 and literature excel all others in logical clearness, 

 simplicity, and elegance, and which has exhibited 

 in the domains of fiction and popular philosophy a large 

 amount of psychological insight and refined analysis, 

 should have, for a long period, produced hardly any 

 exclusively psychological or logical treatises. 



Although it is conceivable and has been the ambition 

 of some thinkers that the process of knowledge should 

 be approached in an unbiassed spirit, and studied in an 

 unprejudiced manner as a definite object belonging to 



