A HISTOKY OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT 

 IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 



INTEODUCTIOK 

 I. 



BEHIND the panorama of external events and changes i- 



Thought, 



which history unfolds before our view there lies the * e r { 1 d idden 

 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 design and purpose, leading us back to some 

 originating cause or forward to some denned 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 external events require to be somehow 

 connected, to present themselves in some order and con- 

 tinuity, before we are able to grasp and record them. 

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