We much regret to record the death of Mr. F.
H. Bradley at the age of seventy-eight. He was the half- brother of Dean Bradley, who was Master of Marlborough and afterwards Dean of Westminster. There can seldom have been a more remarkable discrepancy between the value of a man's work and the small amount of popular attention bestowed upon it. When Mr. Bradley died, the vast majority of people heard of him for the first time as a great metaphysician and logician, unless, indeed, they remembered that he had very properly been appointed to the Order of Merit only a few months before his death. Bradley, it is true, was a recluse, having been more or less of an invalid all his life. Besides, his philosophy did not have any immediate reaction upon politics as in the case of Mill, Spencer and others. Nevertheless, he may be reckoned in time to come to have been the most important English philosopher since Hume. Basing himself on the Germans he made Idealism glorious, and there are those who think that Mill cannot recover from Bradley's analysis. There arc more students of logic in England now than ever before, and the fact is mainly due to Bradley. His work has influenced countless persons who are still not aware to whom they owe their debt of intellectual gratitude.
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