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GERMAN SPECULATIONS ON PROGRESS.
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The philosophical views current in Germany during the period in which the psychology of Locke was in fashion in France and before the genius of Kant opened a new path, were based on the system of Leibnitz.

We might therefore expect to find a theory of Progress developed there, parallel to the development in France though resting on different principles.

For Leibnitz, as we saw, provided in his cosmic optimism a basis for the doctrine of human Progress, and he had himself incidentally pointed to it.

This development, however, was delayed.