It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. Moore and Bertrand Russell in the early 1900s. Consistently his own view combined monism with absolute idealism.

Francis Herbert Bradley OM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.