The Philosophy of Life, and Philosophy of Language: In a Course of Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Tar-ma are, says a poet as ingenious as profound,' more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. This sentiment, which Genius accidentally et drop, is in the main applicable also to the philosophy of our own day; and, with a sli ht modification, I shall be ready to ado t it as my own. He only change that is re quisite to malie it available for my pu ose would be the ad dition and also between heaven an earth are there many things which are not dreamt of in our philoso hy. And exactly because philosophy, for the most part, oes nothing but dream - scientifically dream, it may be - therefore is it ignorant, ay, has no inkling even of much which, neverthe less, in all propriety it ought to know. It loses sight of its true object, it quits the firm ground where, standing secure, it might pursue its own avocations without let or hinder ance, whenever, abandoning its own proper region, it either soars up to heaven to weave there its fine-spun webs of dialectics, and to build its metaphysical castles in the air, or else, losing itself on the earth, it violently interferes with external reality, and determines to shape the world accord ing to its own fancy, and to reform it at will. Half way be tween these' two devious courses lies the true road; and the roper region of philosophy is even that spiritual inner life getween heaven and earth.

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