Excerpt from Modern Thinkers and Present Problems: An Approach to Modern Philosophy Through Its History
And what then? The pages on Pragmatism and on Progress may offer suggestions of an answer. They are still historical in their spirit, and like those that had gone before them mean to illus trate, not to demonstrate or aflirm. They, too, would stand for moments of any thoughtful life and will have done all they were intended to do if they inform such a life with, and give it a sense of attachment to the world that has gone before and is going on 'round.
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