BY FREDERICK J. E. WOODBRIDGE New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1916 All rights reserved Copyright, 1916, By Columbia University Press . ———— Printed from type, July, 1916....

This book contains three lectures delivered at the University of North Carolina on the McNair Foundation in March of the current year. It expresses certain conclusions about history to which I have been led by the study of the history of philosophy and by reflection on the work of contemporary philosophers, especially Bergson, Dewey, and Santayana. I am happy to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina for a most delightful visit at Chapel Hill.