ABSTRACT
Most of my boyhood was. passed in Guildford. I attended the Grammar School there, and was nurtured in the classical tradition. But during my school-days I became interested in problems of science and philosophy, mainly through reading books in my father's library. My father was a solicitor; and, after leaving school, I spent three years in his office. My taste was not, however, for the Law. In 1884 I obtained a scholarship, which enabled me to proceed to Owens College in Manchester. Here I studied mainly under Professor Adamson, to whom I owe a deep debt of gratitude. I attended also classes in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Physiology, and did a fair amount of laboratory work. I graduated with Honours in Philosophy in 1888, and then proceeded to Manchester New College, as it was at that time called, which moved from London to Oxford in 1889. In Oxford I attended regularly the lectures of William Wallace, R. L. Nettleship, and Cook Wilson. I obtained a Hibbert Scholarship in 1891; and in 1892 went to Leipzig, where for four years I was engaged in research work during the period when Wundt and Heinze were the leading teachers in the Department of Philosophy. Throughout those years I was largely engaged in the experimental work that was going on in the Psychological Institute, I graduated at Leipzig in 1896, On my return to England I was appointed minister of Unity Church, Islington, and continued in that position until 1903, when I retired from the ministry. In 1904 I came to reside in Cambridge. In the same year I was chosen to fill the Chair of Moral Philosophy in University College, London, the title of the Chair being changed to that of Philosophy in 1911. I have also lectured in Cambridge on psychology and philosophy since 1910.
