BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERT. - English philosopher, b. at Glasbury (Wales) on 30 Jan. 1846 and d. at Oxford on 18 Sept. 1924. He is the last representative of that idealism which Coleridge had initiated in England and which had prevailed throughout the nineteenth century. Close relations link this idealism with German thought, but it acquired an originality and vitality wholly its own, from which beneficial influences derived for the sensationalism and positivism that accompanied its development. B. carried it almost to sceptical conclusions, placing true and absolute reality outside time and space and re-
ducing human knowledge to the fictitious appearance of finite things. Principal works: Ethical Studies (London, 1876); Appearance and reality (ibid., 1893); Essays on Truth and Reality (Oxford, 1914).