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By E.A. Jarvis,Frank A. Oppenheim

Dr. Jarvis kindly invited me to adopt this Foreword. in keeping with his recommendation, I right here intend to enrich his paintings by means of making a context for it. to take action, earlier observe of a typical misrepresentation of Royce and of his modern relevance turns out wanted, ahead of in short sketching his biography and curiosity in faith. ultimately, to orient the reader to the current research, i'm going to indicate Royce's major works and the spirit of the fellow. within the 12 months 2150 A. D. , what's going to humans be asserting approximately Harvard? If the stated prediction of a self -effacing William James comes actual, the typical solution could be, "Harvard? Oh, that is the position the place Royce taught. " And but, now that nearly a century has handed for the reason that Royce started instructing at Harvard, such a lot american citizens don't realize the identify "Josiah Royce. " of these who do, few understand him as an important American thinker of neighborhood. And of those few, a ways fewer keep in mind both that spiritual difficulties first drove Royce to philosophy or that he acknowledged such difficulties "of all human pursuits, deserve our greatest efforts and our utmost loyalty. " 1 Little ask yourself, then, that once american citizens survey our "classic" philosophers-Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead-few of them reply to Royce because the so much explicitly and over and over non secular thinker of all of them. thankfully, in spite of the fact that, recognition contests don't correctly weigh the benefit of a philosopher.

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