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Excerpt from An Historical Interpretation of Philosophy
By one man's thought. The philosophy that undertakes this task will be ground to dust as a small thing, a stone pressed and revolved by the undying strength of a glacier. That a single person, in remote, wayward speculation, should attempt to set aside, or even to interpret in some remote way, the accumulated experience Of all time, grow ing into universal convictions under the double ministra tion of physical tendencies and spiritual appetencies, is an absurdity. It is as if one should strive to alter the orbit Of the earth by jumping on it. A theory Of knowl edge that contradicts knowledge is one that pushes aside the subject-matter with which it has to deal, and expounds the generic movement of the race by the erratic departure of individuals from it. There may come corrections of knowledge out of knowledge itself, corrections wholly in harmony. With its fundamental methods, but there can be no criticism by mind that invalidates the processes Of mind and the conclusions held under them. It is not the popular as opposed to the disciplined mind that is magni fied by the assertion, but the normal as Opposed to the exceptional activity of mind.
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