ABSTRACT
A further difficulty for any observer attempting to get their philosophy in focus is that it never stays still. It is in continuous motion, whose phases melt into their successors like the scenes of a colourorgan. Most of its literature lies not in books-one member has remarked that the day of books in philosophy is over-but in fliegende Blatter, articles in the professional journals, which sometimes, as in Analysis, are short even for articles. This has made possible a rapid cross-fire of proposal and counter-proposal, of commentary and epi-commentary, in which the conclusions become more esoteric with each exchange. Few extended applications of the new method
2. In spite of their demurrers and differences, however, these philosophers clearly belong to a single movement. They are united in both likes and dislikes. As for their dislikes, they jointly deprecate the grandiose in philosophy-alI-embracing metaphysical systems, moral philosophies sweetened with unction, the pretentious and pedantic language with which speculators of the past have too often tried to dignify foggy thought. To anyone whose expectations had been set by the Oxford of a generation earlier, the Oxford of Caird and Bradley, the new philosophy was in a low key, and its almost ostentatiously casual language about 'doing philosophy' as studying 'the jobs' of 'a lot of words' was not always prepossessing.
