The Philosophy of Loyalty

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO BY JOSIAH ROYCE PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY Nefo gorfc THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved ^ **/ 1 COPYBIOHT, 1908, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1908. Reprinted August, 1908. NortoootJ J. 8. Gushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE IN 1906 and 1907 I gave, as a part of my regular work at the Summer School of Har vard University, an " Introduction to Ethics, with Special Reference to the Interests of Teachers." A few lectures, summing up the main principles that lay at the basis of this ethical course as it had been given in the summer of 1906, were delivered in January and February, 1907, before a general academic audience, during a brief visit of mine at the University of Illinois. In several other places, both in the West and in the East, I have also presented portions of my views upon ethics; and in the summer of 1907 four general lectures on the topic were repeated before the Summer School of Theology at Harvard. In November and December of 1907 the lectures that constitute the present book were delivered for the first time before the Lowell Institute in Boston. vi PREFACE vi PREFACE In preparing this new statement of my case for the Lowell Institute course, I thus had the opportunity to use the experience and the criticisms that had resulted from several previous efforts of mine to set forth my views about the topics treated in this " Philosophy of Loyalty." The Lowell Institute lectures were, in fact, substantially a fresh presenta tion of the material, — only Lecture V, on " American Problems," retaining any large portion of the text of any of my former lec tures.…