The century and a half which has passed since Hegel flourished has been a period during which his influence has been immense. Hegel is one of the giants in philosophy, and it is perhaps no longer possible to escape his influence. His work exercised a tremendous effect on Marxism: the "dialectic' of "dialectical materialism' is his. Bradley after all is chiefly Hegel in the dress of an English gentleman. These extremes do not exhaust Hegel's reputation. Every country in which philosophy is taken seriously at all has had its Hegelians. In the United States in the nineteenth century Hegelianism was represented by William T. Harris and the St. Louis movement he led, and by Josiah Royce. Moreover, the influence of Hegel has not subsided; if anything, it has grown. The existentialism of Kierkegaard, and of our contemporaries, Heidegger and Sartre, is Hegelian in origin. The speculative philosopher who wishes to save the best of the past for incorporation in a system in the present might preserve the Hegelian dialectical process along with the Platonic Ideas, the Aristotelian substance and the Kantian limitations on knowledge.