In Eucken we have one of the greatest thinkers of the age--some would say _the_ greatest--setting his life upon emphasising the spiritual at a time when the tendency is strongly in materialistic directions. He has gathered around him a number of able and whole-hearted disciples in various countries, and future ages may find in Eucken the greatest force in the revulsion of the twentieth century (that is already making itself felt) from the extreme materialistic position, to take religion up again, and particularly the Christian religion, as the only satisfying solution of humanity's most urgent problem. BIBLIOGRAPHY The English reader should first read: _The Meaning and Value of Life_ (A. & C. Black), which is a good introduction to Eucken's philosophy; and _The Life of the Spirit_ (Williams & Norgate). He can then proceed to study Eucken's three comprehensive and important works: _Life's Basis and Life's Ideal_, in which he gives a detailed presentation of his philosophy (A. & C. Black). _The Truth of Religion_, in which he gives his ideas on religion (Williams & Norgate). _The Problem of Human Life_, in which he makes a searching analysis of the philosophies of the past (Fisher Unwin). The student will be much helped in his study by the following books: _Eucken and Bergson_, by E. Hermann (James Clark & Co.). _Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life_, by Professor W.R. Boyce Gibson (A. & C. Black). When he has studied these he will probably be anxious to read other works of Eucken's, of which translations have already appeared, or are soon to appear. INDEX Absolute, the, 63 ---- Freedom and the, 61, 62 ---- Personality and the, 62, 63 ---- and historical religion, chap. viii. ---- religion, Christianity as the, 72 Activism, 41, 42 Atonement, the, 79 Bergson, 39 Buddhism, 70, 71 Characteristic Religion, 66, 67 Characteristics of a satisfactory solution of life, 16 Christ, as mediator, 74 ---- Personality of, 80 ---- Value of life of, 83 Christian Church, 81, 82 Christianity, and historical bases, 80, 81 ---- Appreciation of, 83 ---- as absolute religion, 72 ---- highest form of religion, 71, 72 Conversion, 57, 73 Doubt, 76 Empiricism, 36, 37 Eternal and transient in religion and Christianity, 72, 73 ---- truth contrasted with its temporary expression, 44, 45 Eucken, assumptions made by, 88 ---- bias, 87 ---- charge of irrationalism, 88, 89 ---- contributions to philosophy and religion, 90, 91 ---- faults of style, 86 ---- Incompleteness of philosophy of, 87 ---- Special excellences of philosophy of, 89 Evil, 51 Faith, 76 Freedom, ascent to, 59 ---- and the absolute, 61, 62 ---- and naturalism, 26 God, is God a person? 63, 64 ---- Nature of, 63, 64 Historical and absolute religion, chap. viii. ---- bases of Christianity, 80, 81 History and philosophy, 43-49 ---- and religion, 17, 18 Idealistic presuppositions of socialism and individualism, 31, 48 Ideas, power of, 46