ABSTRACT
The man who with fullest knowledge and sympathy felt both what was owed to Hegel and what called for correction and restatement in him was Josiah Royce. He belonged to the older school of idealists also in the resoluteness with which he sought to put himself abreast of the best that had been thought and written on the central problems of philosophy both in ancient and modern times. Royce would have accepted fides intellectum quoerens as the best expression of the philosophical spirit. “The religious problems”, he tells us in the Preface to his first book, “have been chosen for the present study because they first drove the author to philosophy, and because they of all human interests deserve our best efforts and our utmost loyalty”. He believed that relief from the pressure of these problems was to be won not by turning away from doubt but by carrying it to the farthest point.
