PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION THE wider the reading public of a text-book, the more prompt must the text-book itself be in its development to meet the demands of its increasing number of readers. To this end my publishers have incurred considerable expense in their hearty coöperation with me in the revision of this volume of A Beginner's History of Philosophy. Much new material has been incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the "Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century" has been developed at some length. The original purpose of this history as a text-book for beginning students in this subject has been preserved. For this purpose diagrams have been added to the last chapter; and also bibliographies have been excluded as far as possible. A bibliography is worth while only if it is absolutely complete-and a complete collection of collateral reading is out of place here. Furthermore, if a word to the teacher may be permitted, the student will read outside of his own text-book only what his teacher reads and values. WEST NEWTON, Mass. HERBERT ERNEST CUSHMAN. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE CAUSES OF THE DECAY OF THE CIVILIZATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES Standard. CHAPTER II. THE RENAISSANCE (1453-1690) THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE RENAISSANCE MAP SHOWING THE DECENTRALIZATION OF EUROPE II. The New Universe of the Renaissance . The New Physical Universe The Two Periods of the Renaissance: The Humanis- tic (1453-1600); The Natural Science (1600-1690) 24 (a) Their Similarities (b) Their Differences 285 |