Excerpt from Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics Of course scientific ideas can not be applied and animated until all the separate sciences are made fully responsible to each other, until they have been tested, each one and all Of them, as theories of the universe, or finally until they have been brought under a single organizing and transfiguring idea, but in spite of this duty to interpret and organize the sciences the philosopher never loses his inter est in a truth that liberates. The history of philosophy is but a record Of the ideas, both in their temporal sequence and in their logical relations, that have been the central and con trolling motives Oi man's progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.