Excerpt from The Catholic University Bulletin, Vol. 16: January, 1910 The same French Socrates, when he reformed and refined the art of philosophizing, had raised hopes which those who came after had but dashed in turn. Men of a radical bent of mind, who looked to philosophy for social rather than individual better ment, naturally expected some golden grain from the promised harvest of reform, and were disappointed at the broken chaff well meant for grain that seemed to them to come instead. The sense of reality appeared to be on the wane. Prejudice was increasing against any philosophy that professed the duality of soul and body, subject and object. This latter pair of opposites, which anyone who took the pains might find dwelling amic ably together in his concrete experience, had been pried apart by the artifice of method until they became in the abstract the most deadly of enemies conceivable. Dualism seemed to have had its day and ceased to be. Monism in some form or other and there was no occasion for bemoaning lack of variety in the specimens, either before Descartes or after - replaced it. Hence forth the lamb was to lie down with the lion, not indeed beside him, but benevolently assimilated in a way not contemplated by the prophet Isaiah, or the poet Virgil. 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.