BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERT. — English philosopher, born at Glasbury (Wales) on 30 January 1846 and died at Oxford on 18 September 1924. He is the last representative of that idealism which Coleridge had initiated in England and which had dominated throughout the 19th century. This idealism is closely linked with German thought, but it acquires an originality and vitality all its own, from which beneficial influences derive for sensism and positivism, which accompany its development. Bradley carries it almost to sceptical expressions, placing true and absolute reality beyond time and space and reducing human knowledge to the deceptive appearance of finite things. Principal works: *Ethical Studies* (London 1876); *Appearance and Reality* (ibid. 1893); *Essays on Truth and Reality* (Oxford 1914).
BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERT
BIBL.: H. Evans, *B.’s Metaphysik*, Leipzig 1902; A. E. Taylor, *F. H. B.*, in *Mind*, new series, 34 (1923); J. H. Muirhead, *B.’s place in Phil.*, ibid.; G. Dawes Hicks, *B.’s treatment of nature*, ibid.