ABSTRACT

The principle that had hitherto guided F. H. Bradley was the implication in human knowledge and conduct of the idea of a perfected wholeness or individuality of content which mind and will seek by consistent effort to appropriate. With this it seems clear Bradley had no intention of breaking. As a matter of fact, his work, as in the case of the Ethical Studies, not only as putting an end to old controversies, but as raising a fundamental issue in philosophy and containing the first hint of the direction in which he himself was to seek for a decision upon it. On the place of Bradley’s second important book in the development of logical doctrine in England there can be no question. British contributions to the science in the nineteenth century, as represented especially by Mr. Mill and Jevons, make a notable chapter in its history, the value of which does not diminish with time.