Excerpt from Idealistic Beginnings in England

The reception accorded Sterling's The Selim-etc}. Hegel, the epoch-making character of which all freely admit, has usually been explained as a re action against the doctrines of Spencer, Huxley and other espousers of the evolutionary hypothe sis. But it is a far more significant fact that the whole transcendental movement was in its origin a reaction against the advance of science. The germanization of British thought is a topic of local Mportance, but the beginnings of idealism arouses a more general interest. The present paper undertakes to trace the first crude steps of this movement which, beginning with Hobbes end ed in the philosophy of Kant. While an endless amount of work has been put upon the transition from the English school to Kant, it has been done in a broad way and has rarely devoted itself to psychology, as is the case with this paper. The gradual development of the idealistic mind in England has been neglected. While the present paper necessarily brings into relief this aspect of the English school, it must be at once understood that the writer does not lose sight of the direct line of the school - a phase of the subject that has not been neglected - just as Kant's continental antecedents have not been forgotten. But it is maintained that the developments in England con.

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