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Studies contained in this volume may be described as chips from a metaphysicians workshop, or perhaps I should rather say blocks hewn out experimentally in the effort after a systematic synthesis; not unlike the painters sketches, or the sculptors rough modellings in clay, which precede the (finished work. The day for systems, we are constantly told, -is passed, but not, let us hope, the day for philosophers to continue the effort to think systematically. Much scorn has been poured on the philosophical systems which sprang into being so abundantly a hundred years ago, fit heralds of a century which has been well called, in retrospect, the |C entury of Hope .W echildren of an age of disillusion ment need to recapture something of the confidence, the speculative daring, of the great thinkers of the past. On the printed page their systems are apt to appear as vain attempts to imprison the rich and varied life of the world in a rigid pattern of conceptual pigeon-holes. But of their spirit, their endeavour after wholeness, their effort to think systematically, we cannot have enough. We certainly need more than we have. At any rate, the followingS tudies are inspired by the conviction itself not an a priori assumption, but a conclusion slowly gathered from the business of philosophising that experience, taken as a whole, gives us clues which, rightly interpreted, lead to the perception of order in the universe, a graded order of varied appearances. The concepts of the order of the universe and in the Platonic phrase of the saving of the appearances define, between them, the ideal which I have had before me.
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