 As the above (by no means complete) account of his public recognition reveals, in his own day Bradley’s intellectual reputation stood remarkably high: he was widely held to be the greatest English philosopher of his generation, and although the idealists were never a dominant majority, amongst some philosophers the attitude towards him seems to have been one almost of veneration. The significance of his work and its impact upon British philosophy were recognized by friends and foes. The second volume of J.H. Muirhead’s prestigious Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements — a book which appeared shortly after Bradley’s death and collected papers by all major philosophers of the time, including thinkers as hostile to the idealistic outlook as G.E. Moore — opens with the following dedication: ‘To F.H. Bradley, Order of Merit: To whom British Philosophy owed the impulse that gave it new life in our time’.