T. H. Buckle” (1884), “Slavonic Studies” (1889), “The Fundamentals of Concrete Logic” (1885).
When the struggle to revive and renew Czech cultural life became the most critical, Masaryk presented a series of analytic studies of Bohemia’s literary and political revival. These are widely published and read in America also and included his “Karel Havlíček” (1896), “Jan Hus—Naše Obrození a Naše Reformace” (Jan Hus—Our Renaissance and Our Reformation) (1896), “Česká Otázka” (The Czech Question) (1895), “Naše Nynější Krise” (Our Present Crisis) (1895). His “Otázka Socialní" (The Socialist Problem) analyzes and appraises Marx and his principles. “V Boji o Naboženství" (The Struggle of Religion), “Mnohoženství a Jednoženství” (Polygamy and Monogamy) (1902), “V Boji Protí Alkoholismu” (The Fight Against Alcoholism) (1908), “Česká Filosofie” (Czech Philosophy) (1912), all contain the ripe judgment of a man who had thoroughly digested the problems discussed.
In each article and book Masaryk’s remarkable personality stands forth in his determination, first, to wholly emancipate the Czechs from the German philosophy, accomplishing this by supplanting Kant with Hume, Herbart with English psychology, not merely by interpretation but by a critical reorganization into which his own ethical and religious convictions entered; second, by bringing philosophy down from a plane of mere theory to become the first aid in all sciences, arts, religion and every-day life so that the
