As one critic says: "The earnestness, depth and grandeur, humility and conscious choice of high ideals, have raised his work far above mere intellectual acuteness and minuteness." In Eucken we have one of the greatest thinkers of the age--some would say _the_ greatest--setting his life upon emphasising the spiritual at a time when the tendency is strongly in materialistic directions.

He has gathered around him a number of able and whole-hearted disciples in various countries, and future ages may find in Eucken the greatest force in the revulsion of the twentieth century (that is already making itself felt) from the extreme materialistic position, to take religion up again, and particularly the Christian religion, as the only satisfying solution of humanity's most urgent problem.
BIBLIOGRAPHY The English reader should first read: _The Meaning and Value of Life_ (A.& C.Black), which is a good introduction to Eucken's philosophy; and _The Life of the Spirit_ (Williams & Norgate).
He can then proceed to study Eucken's three comprehensive and important works: _Life's Basis and Life's Ideal_, in which he gives a detailed presentation of his philosophy (A.& C.Black).
_The Truth of Religion_, in which he gives his ideas on religion (Williams & Norgate).
_The Problem of Human Life_, in which he makes a searching analysis of the philosophies of the past (Fisher Unwin).
The student will be much helped in his study by the following books: _Eucken and Bergson_, by E.Hermann (James Clark & Co.).
_Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life_, by Professor W.R.Boyce Gibson (A.& C.Black).
When he has studied these he will probably be anxious to read other works of Eucken's, of which translations have already appeared, or are soon to appear.
INDEX Absolute, the, 63 -- -- Freedom and the, 61, 62 -- -- Personality and the, 62, 63 -- -- and historical religion, chap.

viii.
-- -- religion, Christianity as the, 72 Activism, 41, 42 Atonement, the, 79 Bergson, 39 Buddhism, 70, 71 Characteristic Religion, 66, 67 Characteristics of a satisfactory solution of life, 16 Christ, as mediator, 74 -- -- Personality of, 80 -- -- Value of life of, 83 Christian Church, 81, 82 Christianity, and historical bases, 80, 81 -- -- Appreciation of, 83 -- -- as absolute religion, 72 -- -- highest form of religion, 71, 72 Conversion, 57, 73 Doubt, 76 Empiricism, 36, 37 Eternal and transient in religion and Christianity, 72, 73 -- -- truth contrasted with its temporary expression, 44, 45 Eucken, assumptions made by, 88 -- -- bias, 87 -- -- charge of irrationalism, 88, 89 -- -- contributions to philosophy and religion, 90, 91 -- -- faults of style, 86 -- -- Incompleteness of philosophy of, 87 -- -- Special excellences of philosophy of, 89 Evil, 51 Faith, 76 Freedom, ascent to, 59 -- -- and the absolute, 61, 62 -- -- and naturalism, 26 God, is God a person?
63, 64 -- -- Nature of, 63, 64 Historical and absolute religion, chap.

viii.
-- -- bases of Christianity, 80, 81 History and philosophy, 43-49 -- -- and religion, 17, 18 Idealistic presuppositions of socialism and individualism, 31, 48 Ideas, power of, 46 Immanent idealism as a solution of the problem of life, 19-22 Immediacy, the new, 58 Immortality, 60, 77 Incarnation, 78 Independence of the spiritual life, 52, 53 Individualism, and personality, 59, 62 -- -- as a solution of the problem of life, 26-32 -- -- idealistic presuppositions of, 31, 48 Irrationalism, charge of, 88, 89 James, William, 39, 40 Law, religions of, 69, 70 Life, independence of the spiritual, 52 -- -- spiritual, relation of, to natural life, 52-54 -- -- -- -- superiority over natural life, 52-54 -- -- The spiritual, 14 -- -- The universal spiritual, 44, 49, chaps.v., vi., vii.

(vii.
especially).
Maeterlinck, 44 Man, natural and spiritual, 53, 54 -- -- transcending the material, 46 Mediation, 74 Mediator, Christ as, 74 Methods of Eucken, 14, 15 Mind, limits of, 52 Miracle, 77 Mysticism, 75 Naturalism and freedom, 26 -- -- as a solution of the problem of life, 22-26 -- -- its own disproof, 25 Natural life, relation to spiritual life, 52-54 -- -- -- -- Superiority of spiritual over, 52-54 -- -- man and spiritual man, 53, 54 Nature, limits of, 52 -- -- of God, 63, 64 Negative movement, the, 57, 73 New immediacy, the, 58 Noeological position, the, 50 Pantheism, 20, 51, 56 Past, the, not irrevocable, 44, 73 Personality and individualism, 59, 62 -- -- and the absolute, 62, 63 -- -- gaining of, 54, 59 -- -- of Christ, 80 -- -- of God, 63, 64 Philosophy and history, 43-49 -- -- of life, 13 -- -- problems of, 10, 11 Pragmatism, 40, 41 Prayer, 75 Problem, Eucken's special, 12-14 Problems of philosophy, 10, 11 Purpose of Eucken's investigation, 13 -- -- of religion, 65, 66 Rationalism, 37-39 Redemption, 73 Religion and history, 17, 18 -- -- and human activity, 18 -- -- and science, 19 -- -- as solution of problem of life, 16, 19 -- -- Characteristic, 66, 67 -- -- Christianity as highest form of, 71, 72 -- -- Christianity as the absolute, 72 -- -- Essential characteristics of, 65, 66 -- -- Eternal and transient in, 72, 73 -- -- Eucken's contributions to, 90, 91 -- -- Historical and absolute, chap.