  Ward’s philosophy is little known today and scholarly discussions of his thought are scanty. In the widely read A Hundred Years of Philosophy, John Passmore compares it unfavourably with McTaggart’s: “In McTaggart’s case, the difficulty is to give a summary account of a highly intricate pattern of argument; in Ward’s case, to decide what he really meant to say on the issues of central philosophical importance” (82). In an age in love with logical technicalities, this is like putting a heavy stone on the philosopher’s grave.