MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY Modern Philosophy, emancipated and self- unfolding, properly begins its new historic career in the Seventeenth Century.

Undoubtedly men were philosophizing in an independent Spirit during the preceding Century.

We cannot deny to Bruno, Boehme, and Bacon the name of phi losophers.

But their works are more in the nature of protests against the past, irregular excursions into the future, prophetic intimations of the coming science.

In the Seventeenth Cen tury, however, the philosophic Norm itself is re-born and is made to hold the new thought of the age which is thus the true Renascence of Philosophy.