Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Alphabet ........................................................ 206 Athletics .......................................................... 1+5 Baseball ..................................................... . . . . 16+ Class of '05 ..................................................... 447 Class of '04- ................................................... . 53 Debating 6161:1619 ............................................... 1 79 Editors of Hullabaloo ........................................... 40 Editors of News-Lcttcr ............................................ 144 Faculty ........................................................... 26 Football ......................................................... 160 Fraternities ...................................................... 113 Gilbert. C. Allan Uhuwing' MO ..................................... 80 Girls 6Drawing9 ....................................... 80, 172, 2405171. Gould, Dr. E R. L ................................................ 16 Granville-Smith, W. Uh'mving h; 6 ................................ . 24-0 Hellcu 6Com! of IitclIinmr Ind ....................................... 242 Hullabaloo Board of Editm's ...................................... 4O Lacrosse, '02 ...................................................... 1+8 Lacrosse, 603 ..................................................... 153 Lowell, Orson Uhuwing lnj ............................. , .......... 2 4-3 Mackdernmtt. Mr. Wm. M ........................................ 87 Musical Clubs .................................................... 160 Nineteen-Thrcc Uh'uwing by GilhcrU .............................. 80 Ncws-Lcticr Board of Editors ..................................... 14-4- Pilgrinfs Progress ......................................... 32, 4-4, 50. 56 Relay Team ...................................................... 156 Renouf, Dr. Edward ............................................... 4 Track Team ....................................................... 154 Verbeck. Gustave Uh'awing 136 ................................... 241 Willoughby, Dr. W. W ............................................. 12 I I

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The Aim of a Social Philosophy. HE task of the historian is not exhausted in the discovery and statement of events that have occurred. A more difficult part of his work is the determination and narration 0f the logical relations that have connected these events. Thus it is his aim not simply to trace the causal relations between particular historical facts, but to ascertain the significance of a civilization or an cra,and thus to show why, as a resultant of all the forces at work among a given people, the movement has necessarily been toward the point actually reached. When such a grasp of historical facts is obtained, the realm of the philos- ophy of history is reached. The task of a philosophy of history may thus be said to be to view the record of the past as a whole, to deduce the broadest possible generalizations, and to discover the psychological as well as the material causes that have determined the course of events. There is, we believe, however, a task for the historian even more profound than the tracing of efficient causal relations, however comprehensively these may be conceived and demonstrated. This task is the determination of the spiritual forces that have operated in the past to urge men forward along the lines of development which are recorded; or, in other words, and perhaps more strictly, the demonstration of the rationality of historical processes by showing the manner in which they have been controlled by the strivings of men to satisfy desires due to This, as we interpret him, is what Hegel understood by a characteristics belonging to them as moral beings. philosophy of history. HThe only thought,H he says, Hwhich philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of history is the simple conception of reason; that reason is the sovereign of the world; that the history of the world therefore presents us with a rational processf' T. H. Green also has especially emphasized the necessity of con- sidering the truly spiritual forces of whch we have been' speaking in order to obtain an adequate interpretation of history. HIt is the consciousness of possibilities in ourselves, unrealized but constantly in the process of realizae tion, he says, Hthat alone enables us to read the idea of development into what we observe of natural life, and con- ceive that there must be such a thing as a plan of the worldf, And again he declares: HWe must be on our guard against lapsing into the notion that a process ad infininun, a process not relative to an end, can be a process of development at all. If the history of mankind was simply a history of events, of which each determines the next following, and so on in endless series, there would be no progress or development in it As we cannot sum up B. 13