We have no right to cast stones at any warring nation till we have asked ourselves whether we are willing to forego this principle and to submit affairs which limited imagination and sense have led us to consider strictly national to an international legislature. In and of itself, the idea of peace is a negative idea; it is a police idea. There _are_ things more important than keeping one's body whole and one's property intact. Disturbing the peace is bad, not because peace is disturbed, but because the fruitful processes of cooperation in the great experiment of living together are disturbed. It is futile to work for the negative end of peace unless we are committed to the positive ideal which it cloaks: Promoting the efficacy of human intercourse irrespective of class, racial, geographical and national limits. Any philosophy which should penetrate and particulate our present social practice would find at work the forces which unify human intercourse. An intelligent and courageous philosophy of practice would devise means by which the operation of these forces would be extended and assured in the future. An American philosophy of history must perforce be a philosophy for its future, a future in which freedom and fullness of human companionship is the aim, and intelligent cooperative experimentation the method. THE END INDEX Absolutism, 89, 112, 115, 124 America, philosophy in, 123-132 "Americanism," 124 Anti-Semitism, 100-101. _A priori_, 39-44, 126, 129 Authority, 52-54 Bentham, 56 Bergson, 4 Bernhardi, 34-35, 52, 118 Bourdon, 107-108 Burke, 93-94 Chamberlain, 101 n. Cosmopolitanism, 67, 75, 85, 99 Culture, 91 Descartes, 92 Despotism enlightened, 53 Dialectic, 70, 118 Duty, 24, 50-57 Education, 14, 72, 73 Empiricism, 41, 43, 126-129 Enlightenment, the, 37-39, 59, 92, 103 Eucken, 36, 55 Evolution, 112 Fichte, 68-80, 85-87 Formalism, 51 Freedom, 18, 25, 30, 33-35, 47, 51, 71, 115. French Revolution, 57, 94, 103 French thought, 52, 91-94, 95, 100 Germania, 104 Germany, 14-16, 28, 29-31, 32-33, 36, 71, 78-81, 84-85, 88, 91-93, 94-98, 106-107 Haym, 107 Hegel, 94-95, 107-120, 125 Heine, 17, 18, 76, 83, 84-85 Herder, 112 History, 5-6, 59-67, 98-102, 107-119, 121 Hoffman, 81 Idealism, 28, 39, 70, 82, 107, 123, 130 Ideas and action, 3-15, 123-132 Individualism, 49, 72 Intelligence, 54-56, 126-128 Jena, 68 Kant, 19-40, 47-58, 59-67, 119-121 Kultur, 62-64 Lange, 78 Lasalle, 77 Law, 20-25, 116 Leibniz, 59, 112 Luther, 16, 27, 71, 87 Marx, 6, 110 n. Militarism, 52 Napoleon, 67, 78-79 Nationalism, 67, 81, 86, 87, 115 Nietzsche, 28, 34, 58 Pantheism, 77, 82 Parliaments, 117 Personality, 48