60 ALOIS RIEHL 



however, appears that other calling of phil- 

 osophy over and above the theoretical her 

 call to lead the spirit on the ground that 

 science has made sure. 



Our time craves a new spiritual content for 

 life, a rejuvenescence of inward culture. This 

 craving, which no progress of external civiliza- 

 tion can satisfy, is met on the side of science 

 by the rising philosophy of history taking the 

 latter word in the wider sense of a philosophy 

 of spiritual values. Here it is that the phi- 

 losophy of the present day joins hands with the 

 great tendencies of German Idealism, from 

 which it inherits that most priceless heirloom, 

 a sense for the life of history. 



Historically, everything has had its origin 

 in spiritual behavior complicated by reaction 

 with the world of sense. Hence history has 

 riot, nor can it have, any existence apart from 

 the life of the spirit. History is time's con- 

 tent : what works through it, what perpetuates 

 itself in it, is not cut off from the present by 

 the form of time. History happens; history 

 lasts; of history Bergson's conception of time 

 really holds good. "Objective spirit" that 



