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Excerpt from English Positivism: A Study on John Stuart Mill
Pre'ori and Spiritualist philosophers for every partisan of the doctrine of Experience. This remark is very true. I myself could have made it, having been brought up in the doctrines of Scotch philosophy, and the writings of Reid. I Simply answer that there are philosophers whom we do not count, and that all such, whether English or not, Spiritualist or not, may be neglected without much harm. Once in a half cen tury, or perhaps in a century, or two cen turies, some thinker appears; Bacon and Hume in England, Descartes and Condillac in France, Kant and Hegel in Germany. At other times the stage is unoccupied, or ordinary men come forward, and offer the public that which the public likes - Sen sualists or Idealists, according to the ten deney of the day, with sufficient instruction and Skill to play leading parts, and enough capacity to reset old airs, well drilled in the works of their predecessors, but destitute of real invention - simple executant musicians, who stand in the place of composers. In Europe, at present, the stage is a blank.
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