ABSTRACT
The “Terminal Essays”, published along with a Commentary on the text in the Second Edition of the Principles of Logic in 1922, are a fitting conclusion to what F. H. Bradley wished to leave in book form. It must always be with the greatest diffidence that the student who is familiar with the subtlety and many-sidedness of his thought ventures to differ from Bradley upon fundamental points. By the time Bradley came to write Appearance and Reality dialectical criticism may be said to have become a habit and to have given a permanent list to his thought on the sceptical side. The criticism ends with an appeal to the idealist principle to which Bradley is himself committed, that “to distinguish is to unite”. Bradley was aware that philosophy might be made and had often been made a religion.
