PREFACE XXVll 



always remain for me one of the world's great minds. 

 He has left us in his Logic, I am persuaded, a per- 

 manent inheritance, which despite his metaphysical 

 abuses of it, and despite its sundry slips and gaps, 

 only awaits the labours of some sufficiently powerful 

 successor to become a complete system of our expe- 

 riential ascent out of inadequate to adequate cate- 

 gories. May we not hope that this service may yet 

 be performed for us by the Master of BalHol, or by 

 our own National Commissioner of Education ? 



In the various essays, the new pluralistic theory 

 of ultimate reality is presented now in one of its 

 factors, now in another ; in none of them, however, 

 is any exposition of it as a systematic whole under- 

 taken. Proofs of this or that part of it are attempted 

 in each paper, and, in the course of the volume, of 

 all its ten propositions above laid down, but no estab- 

 lishment of the system as such ; this must wait for 

 another place and occasion. The fullest discussions 

 of important phases in the theory are contained in 

 the first essay and the last ; and for this reason 

 these were given the two most prominent places in 

 the book. The intervening essays are placed nearly 

 in the order of their original production, though the 

 central theme of the theory, which may very properly 

 be called TJic eternal reality of the individual, im- 

 doubtedly comes out with increasing articulateness 



