An outcome of this sort seems not alto- gether satisfactory, and so the solvent word remains unspoken, On the other hand, there are men who are still constructing or re-constructing systems of Philosophy, wrought after the old pattern with new additions here and there, and spiced usually with sharp criticisms on all other systems.

Of such Germany has been and still is the prolific home.

In the first half of the past century, Philosophy-building became the chief occupa- tion of the highest order of German intellect, with wonderful results; in the second half it was still kept up, though the output was less in quantity, and far inferior in originality.

The result, however, can hardly be denied: ancient Greece and modern Germany show the two highest points in the development of Philosophy.

But is this all of it? What is to be its future? In its antique and in its modern periods it seems to lie before us rounded out and complete.