Philosophy

Abstract

THE author of this book is not only a distinguished figure in the philosophical world, but also a teacher honoured by many hundreds of his former students. His power as a teacher, as well as a thinker, is manifest in all that he writes. He has the gift of making difficult matters seem at least not hopelessly incomprehensible. Indeed, he seems in some danger of sharing the philosophic fate of J. S. Mill, of whom it has been said that he made the mistake of writing clearly enough to be found out.