and the conditions under which this idea may be regarded as true and intelligible I have already spoken. Its proper interpretation, however, along with the exposition of the metaphysic upon which it must be made to repose, is at least part of the work of the philosophy of the future--if philosophy is true to its task of leading and guiding the thought of mankind. FOOTNOTES [1] See, for example, the concessions and the fresh statements of the problem of philosophy, and the “clearing of the ground,” etc., referred to on p. 76 and p. 74. Also p. 27 in reference to the stir and the activity that have been excited by the pragmatist controversy. See also p. 230, in the eighth chapter, in reference to some things in such a typical intellectualist as Professor Bosanquet that may be construed as a concession to Pragmatism and Humanism. [2] Dr. Edward Caird affirmed in his memoir of his brother (Principal John Caird) that idealists admit some pragmatist charges. [3] Professor Stein, a contemporary European authority, to whom we shall again refer below, says, for example, in his well-known articles in the _Archiv für Philosophie_ (1908), in reference to Pragmatism, that we have had nothing like it [as a ‘movement’] “since Nietzsche” (“Der Pragmatismus,” p. 9). [4] See Chapter VIII., where I discuss the natural theology that bases itself upon these supposed principles of a “whole of truth” and the “Absolute.” [5] This statement I think would be warranted by the fact of the tendency of the newer physical science of the day to substitute an electrical, for the old material, or corpuscular, conception of matter, or by the admission, for example, of a contemporary biologist of importance (Verworn, _General Physiology_, p. 39) that “all attempts to explain the psychical by the physical must fail. The actual problem is ... not in explaining psychical by physical phenomena but rather in reducing to its psychical elements physical, like all other psychical phenomena.” [6] See p. 81, and p. 150. [7] See Chapter V. pp. 136, 138, where we examine, or reflect upon, the ethics of Pragmatism. [8] The importance of these volumes in the matter of the development, in the minds of thinking people everywhere, of a dynamic and an organic (instead of the older rationalistic and intellectualistic) conception of religion and of the religious life cannot possibly be overestimated. Of course it is only right to add here that such a dynamic and organic view of religion is the property not only of Professor James and his associates, but also of the army of workers of to-day in the realms of comparative religion and anthropology. [9] _Pragmatism_, p. 300. [10] Or an admission like the following in the _Meaning of Truth_ (p. 243): “It may be that the truest of all beliefs shall be that in transsubjective realities.” [11] _Meaning of Truth_, p. 124, 5. [12] See p. 40 and p. 149. [13] _Pragmatism_, pp. 244–245. [14] _A Pluralistic Universe_, p. 34.