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This book contains three lectures delivered at the University of North Carolina on the McNair Foundation in 1916. It expresses certain conclusions about history to which the author, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge (of Columbia University) had been led by the study of the history of philosophy and by reflection on the work of contemporary philosophers, especially Bergson, Dewey, and Santayana. The lecture titles are From History to Philosophy, The Pluralism of History, and The Continuity of History. Frederick J. E. Woodbridge (1867-1940) was an early 20th century American philosopher. He was one of the principal figures responsible for the adoption of philosophical realism in the United States. Along with George Santayana and John Dewey, Woodbridge was a founder of the philosophical movement known as American Naturalism. He was also the co-founder of The Journal of Philosophy.