It would be a grievous blunder to suppose that this final chapter annihilates the earlier ones; that the failure of Leibniz as to method, though a failure in a fundamental point, cancelled his splendid achievements. Such thoughts as that substance is activity; that its process is measured by its end, its idea; that the universe is an inter-related unit; the thoughts of organism, of continuity, of uniformity of law,--introduced and treated as Leibniz treated them,--are imperishable. They are members of the growing consciousness, on the part of intelligence, of its own nature. There are but three or four names in the history of thought which can be placed by the side of Leibniz's in respect to the open largeness, the unexhausted fertility, of such thoughts. But it is not enough for intelligence to have great thoughts nor even true thoughts. It is testimony to the sincerity and earnestness of intelligence that it cannot take even such thoughts as those of Leibniz on trust. It must _know_ them; it must have a method adequate to their demonstration. And in a broad sense, the work of Kant and of his successors was the discovery of a method which should justify the objective idealism of Leibniz, and which in its history has more than fulfilled this task. [ Transcriber's Note: The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. By S. C Griggs and Company. By S. C. Griggs and Company. passivity of any kind is a myth, as scholastic fiction. Sensation is passivity of any kind is a myth, a scholastic fiction. Sensation is the vacuum is to serve as the background of the atoms. The atoms, are the vacuum is to serve as the background of the atoms. The atoms are ] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, by John Dewey