ABSTRACT
WE may fairly say that, with the recent removal of Mr. F. H. Bradley from our midst, the last of that remarkable group of men who made philosophy once more a living and potent force in the final third of the nineteenth century has vanished from this region of temporality. Green, the Cairds, Lewis Nettleship, William Wallace, Adamson, Bosanquet, Bradley-they all now belong to history and the past, and the historians of thought will, no doubt, soon be busied with the attempt dresser le bilan of their work in neat and tabulated form. There will yet have to be an audited "statement of accounts "-so much of abiding achievement on the credit side against so much in the way of questions unraised or left undecided. or decided wrongly on the debit side. Whether, on the closure of the whole account, there is to be a surplus or a deficit, we of to-day, to whom many or most of these eminent men have been known in the flesh as teachers or friends, shall hardly be called on to say. We are still too near them to make an impartial and final estimate of their influence on thought for good and bad. Yet we are also already far enough removed, perhaps, to scrutinize some of the items which the auditor of the future will have to take into his reckoning, and it is to one of these items I would now direct attention.
