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PHILOSOPHICAL TERMINOLOGY. 51 production, in the arbitrary mixture of Kantian and vulgar terminology. The completely inadequate way in which the hintorij of Philosophy is still taught in professorial chairs and books for the most part, that is, as a history of vague schemes and fancies is also partly to blame for this. It may be said that of late a considerable progress has been going on in this respect. For an exact history of terminology, however, almost all that we have of modern date as valuable preliminary work is the writing of Eucken. In public life again, and indeed in all lands, the power of philosophy is nothing. Neither psychologists nor philosophical moralists and politicians (sociologists) enjoy as such any authority. In matters of health and courts of justice psychological opinions, advice, services, are often needed ; they are taken exclusively from the medical faculty. For all the higher functions of gov- ernment in the German empire the ordinary education of the jurist suffices : knowledge of the pandects as a survival, and of more modern legal books. Philosophical education counts rather as an indication of inability. The official opinion of philosophical ethics is such that the statement that ethics is naturally independent of religions, is disqualifying for philosophical professorships. Philosophy was once called the handmaid of Theology. At that time she served a good house, for she remained still "queen of the sciences". To-day she is like a vagabond, begging a bit of bread now from Theology, now from the sciences, but from time to time taken into safe custody by the police. Vagrants also often show their fear in the obscure and confused language which they use. III. 86. The directions from which effectual help may be expected are generally indicated by the diagnosis of the state and its causes. The chief direction is therefore given by the progress of thought itself, in the different branches in which it exerts influence upon these spheres. 87. Most important is its increasingly international character. At some future time it will appear as a great problem how the international character of scientific philosophy could have been to so large an extent obliterated by its confusion with national belles lettres. It becomes more and more apparent that this has been only an interruption, one in many ways fruitful for the spiritual life of particular nations. Philosophy is not separable from the particular sciences. But these are assigned to the communication of new observations, of new