This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...with their abstract cai tendency rsr of English researches, to take part in the great practical work of scicncethe nation. Continental thinkers, whose lives are devoted to the realisation of some great ideal, complain of the want of method, of the erratic absence of discipline, which is peculiar to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...with their abstract cai tendency rsr of English researches, to take part in the great practical work of scicncethe nation. Continental thinkers, whose lives are devoted to the realisation of some great ideal, complain of the want of method, of the erratic absence of discipline, which is peculiar to English genius. The fascination which practical interests exert in this country appears to them an absence of full devotedness to purely ideal pursuits.5 1 See above, p. 245, note.-See above, p. 193, note. ' See above, p. 169, note. 4 Germany may be said to have produced Darwinismiu in this century as France created Neictonianisme in the last. Huxley writes (' Life of Darwin, ' vol. ii. p. 186): "None of us dreamed (in 1860) that in the course of a few years the strength (and perhaps I may add the weakness) of Darwin ismus would have its most extensive and most brilliant illustrations in the land of learning." Quite recently Prof. Boltzmann at Munich, and M. Poincare, have published courses of lectures on Maxwell's electric theories. 5 What appears irksome to an English genius--the red tape of academic restrictions, the barriers of officialism, and the duties of the teacher--melted away in the glow of enthusiasm and love of truth which animated the great leaders and founders of university culture abroad; as Goethe has told us that the rigid form of the sonnet melts in the fervour of the love-song: "Das Allerstarrste freudig aufzuschmel zen Muss Liebesfeuer allgewaltig gluhen."--Sonette No. 14. The English man of science would reply that it is unsafe to trust exclusively to the guidance of a pure idea, that the ideality of German research has frequently been identical with unreality, and that in no country has so much...
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