ABSTRACT

The years immediately preceding the War might have been expected to be a time of excited hope for philosophers, as opening up a new insight into the meaning of the universe. On the contrary to us all they were darkened abroad by the shadow of coming events thrown upon the screen by the restless ambition of the Kaiser, and disturbed at home by the violence with which the Women's Suffrage and the Home Rule movement were being conducted, not to speak of the threat of a general class war. To this in my own case was added the illness that broke down my wife's health in 1910.