474-5.

Flint's account of his speculations is indulgent.

The main ideas of his philosophy of history will be found in the Introduction a la philosophie (ed.

2, 1880) of G.
Tiberghien, a Belgian disciple.] All these transcendent speculations had this in common that they pretended to discover the necessary course of human history on metaphysical principles, independent of experience.

But it has been rightly doubted whether this alleged independence was genuine.