In these days not a few European writers on Philosophy have proclaimed the demise and dis- appearance of the science to which they have devoted their powers.

Philosophy, then, has run its course ; but what new discipline is to take its place? Such is the coming problem.

Other writers have been willing to grant to Philosophy a fresh lease of life, if it can only be brought to mend its ways.

And the way often recom- mended to it is that of Natural Science, or the purely experimental method.

Such a solution, however, though it has been offered by meta- physicians as well as by scientists, could only end in the abolition or at least the enslavement of Philosophy as conceived by its greatest mas- ters.