zigzag, and fruitless, and turns away from life
men whom life most sorely needs. There are
some among us, even some philosophers among
us, who are eager to lead the way out of bickering
into discussion, out of criticism into construction,
out of books into life. We must keep a keen eye
for such men, and their beginnings; and we must
strengthen them with our little help. Philosophy
is too divinely splendid a thing to be kept from
the most divine of things, -- creation. Some of
us love it as the very breath of our lives; it is
our vital medium, without which life would be
less than vegetation; and we will not rest so long
as the name philosopher means anything less
aspiring and inspiring than it did with Plato.
Science flourishes and philosophy languishes, be-
cause science is honest and philosophy syco-
phantic, because science touches life and helps it,
while philosophy shrinks fearfully and helplessly
away. If philosophy is to live again, it must re-
discover life, it must come back into the cave,
it must come down from the "real" and tran-
scendental world and play its venturesome part
in the hard and happy world of efforts and events.

It is the chance of philosophy.

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