Frederick J. E. Woodbridge is notable for the influence his philosophy of naturalism and realism had on a subsequent generation of philosophers; his student John Herman Randall Jr. called him "the wisest man I ever knew." Through his teaching and the dissertation topics he set for his students, Woodbridge made the philosophy of Aristotle accessible to students and philosophers who otherwise would have shunned it. According to another of those students, Sterling P. Lamprecht, Woodbridge "was a leader, possibly the leader, in the movement in the United States in the twentieth century which made the history of philosophy one of the major philosophic disciplines." If not for the testimony of his many successful students, however, Woodbridge's influence would be virtually unknown, because he himself published little on Aristotle. He was content that his views be spread by his former students. Also, as a founder and editor of The...