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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

and knows their laws what that space is, and he must come to philosophy."

A philosophical system, then, is a scheme in which the presuppositions of all the sciences, such, for example, as the existence of nature, of forces, of selves, of the moral law, are reduced to intelligible unity in accordance with some rational principle. It seeks to eliminate all prejudice, narrowly temperamental bias, and the limitations of time and place. It is never reared in intellectual isolation, and must certainly fail unless it take cognisance of all previous systems of any importance.¹ The aim of philosophy is indeed the most audacious and comprehensive ever conceived by man, namely, to discover and state in precise language not only the truth about the universe and all it contains—interpreted in the light of our growing knowledge — but to put all this in its true light in relation to the history of thought.

Thus broadly defined, the problems of philosophy may be summarised in the words of Kant ²: "What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? " F. Perron sums them up in nine questions: "We must ask respecting things: If they are? What they are? How they are? By what? Why? Where? When? How many In what relations? And these nine questions lead to nine

1. Consult Royce, The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, Lecture I.; Windleband, History of Philosophy. For further definitions, see the histories of philosophy by Ueberweg, i., Introduction, I; Erdman,
i., Introduction; Zeller, History of Greek Philosophy, i., I.
2. Critique of Pure Reason.

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