The Chicago School.

Abstract

The rest of the world has made merry over the Chicago man's legendary saying that ' Chicago hasn't had time to get round to culture yet, but when she does strike her, she'll make her hum.'Already the prophecy is fulfilling itself in a dazzling manner.Chicago has a School of Thought!-a school of thought which, it is safe to predict, will figure in literature as the School of Chicago for twenty-five years to come.Some universities have plenty of thought to show, but no school; others plenty of school, but no thought.The University of Chicago, by its Decennial Publications, shows real thought and a real school.Professor John Dewey, and at least ten of his disciples, have collectively put into the world a statement, homogeneous in spite of so many cooperating minds, of a view of the world, both theoretical and practical, which is so simple, massive, and positive that, in spite of the fact that many parts of it yet need to be worked out, it deserves the title of a new system of philosophy.If it be as true as it is original, its publication must be reckoned an important event.The present reviewer, for one, strongly suspects it of being true. 1 1.

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