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CHAPTER IX. 



OF THE SPIRIT. 



i. THROUGHOUT this history it has been my endeavour to 



Interna- 



tionof 38 ^ 00 k a t European thought from an international or 

 Thought, cosmopolitan point of view. I have first tried to show 

 how Scientific Thought has become more and more a 

 subject of general and world-wide interest, national 

 differences gradually disappearing, or, where they existed, 

 contributing nevertheless to that universal body of 

 thought which, at the end of the century, had become 

 the property of all civilised nations. I have secondly 

 shown how, to a lesser extent, though still very 

 markedly so, Philosophical Thought during the nine- 

 teenth century emerged from the narrower limits 

 of national or local interests or of special schools 

 and became a subject of universal importance ; the 

 speculative interest being everywhere centred in the 

 same definite problems. That this is so is not only 

 the consequence of the increased facilities for inter- 

 course and communication: it has been mainly brought 

 about through the working of two marked tendencies 



