DARWIN AND HEGEL WITH OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES BY DAVID G. RITCHIE, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford; Author of " Darwinism and Politics," SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO. PREFACE. THE papers collected in this volume have previously appeared in Mind, The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Philosophical Review, The Economic Review, The Political Science Quarterly, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and The International Journal of Ethics; and I have to thank the respective Editors for their kindness and courtesy in permitting republication. The The "Notes" at the end of the first and third essays have not been printed before. Corrections and alterations of varying importance have been made; but I have not attempted to give these essays, written at different times, an appearance of greater unity than belongs to them from the fact that the diverse subjects are looked at from a common point of view. I have put in the title of the volume the title of the second essay, because it indicates with sufficient emphasis what that point of view is; it expresses my endeavour to reconcile a qualified acceptance of the general principles of that idealist |