THE FUTURE OF PHILOSOPHY.--It is impossible to forecast in what direction philosophy will move. The summary history we have been able to trace sufficiently shows, as it seems to us, that it has no regular advance such that by seeing how it has progressed one can conjecture what path it will pursue. It seems in no sense to depend, or at all events, to depend remarkably little, at any period, on the general state of civilization around it, and even for those who believe in a philosophy of history there is not, as it appears to me, a philosophy of the history of philosophy. The only thing that can be affirmed is that philosophy will always exist in response to a need of the human mind, and that it will always be both an effort to gather scientific discoveries into some great general ideas and an effort to go beyond science and to seek as it can the meaning of the universal enigma; so that neither philosophy, properly speaking, nor even metaphysics will ever disappear. Nietzsche has said that life is valuable only as the instrument of knowledge. However eager humanity may be and become for branches of knowledge, it will be always passionately and indefatigably anxious about complete knowledge. INDEX OF NAMES A Aelard Aenesidemus Agrippa Agrippa, Cornelius Ailly, Peter d' Albertus Magnus Alexander the Great Anaxagoras Anaximander Anselm, St. Antisthenes Apollodorus Arcesilaus Arete Aristippus Aristo Aristobulus Aristophanes Aristotle Arius Arnauld Atticus Augustine, St. Averroes Avicenna B Bacon, Francis Bacon, Roger Beaconsfield Bergson Berkeley Bonaventura, St. Bossuet Bruno, Giordano Brutus Buridan C Calvin Campanella Cardan Carneades Cato Champeaux, William of Charles the Bald Christina of Sweden Chrysippus Cicero Cleanthes Clement, St., of Alexandria Comte, Auguste Cnodillac Corneille Cousin, Victor Crantor Crates D Damiron Darwin Democritus Descartes Diderot Diogenes Durand de Saint-Pourcain Durckheim E Empedocles Epictetus Epicurus Euhemerus F Fenelon Fichte Fontenelle Fouillee Franklin G Gassendi Gerbert Gerson Gorgias H Harvey Havet, Ernest Hegel Hegesias Helvetius Heraclitus Herillus Hermarchus Hobbes, Thomas Holbach, d' Horace Hugo, Victor Hugo de Saint-Victor Hume, David I Iamblichus Izoulet J James I Jesus Christ Joan of Navarre Jouffroy Justinian K Kant L