INITIATION INTO PHILOSOPHY


by Emile Faguet of the French Academy


Author of "The Cult Of Incompetence,"
"Initiation Into Literature," etc.



Translated from the French by
Sir Homer Gordon, Bart.

1914



PREFACE

This volume, as indicated by the title, is designed to show the way to the
beginner, to satisfy and more especially to excite his initial
curiosity. It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and of
ideas. The reader is led, somewhat rapidly, from the remote origins to the
most recent efforts of the human mind.

It should be a convenient repertory to which the mind may revert in order
to see broadly the general opinion of an epoch--and what connected it with
those that followed or preceded it. It aims above all at being _a
frame_ in which can conveniently be inscribed, in the course of further