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But no man is a hero to his valet or his relatives, and on the spring morning when Lassalle stood at the parting of the ways where the Thinker's path debouched on the Fighter's his brother-in-law from Prague, being in Berlin on business, took the opportunity of remonstrating. "I can't understand what you mean by such productions," he cried, excitedly waving a couple of pamphlets.
Cooke says truly of this oration, that nearly all his leading ideas found expression in it. This was to be expected in an address delivered before such an audience. Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off.
What history it had, how it changed from shape to shape, by one thinker's contribution after another, till it got to the full final shape we see it under in the Edda, no man will now ever know: its Councils of Trebizond, Councils of Trent, Athanasiuses, Dantes, Luthers, are sunk without echo in the dark night! Only that it had such a history we can all know.
The thinker's bias is naturally favourable to logical ideas. The man of reflection will attribute, as far as possible, validity and reality to these alone. Platonism remains the classic instance of this way of thinking.
On the other hand he recommended his readers to study "the profound work of Romanes," without, it would seem, being aware of the transformation that took place in that thinker's opinions towards the end of his life. We have now to indicate the nature of the replies that were made to the difficulties of which we spoke in our last chapter. Let us follow the order in which they were presented.
Yet in his two famous volumes of Sermons there are tones of an exquisite tenderness and sweetness, together with harmonies of prose style, that remind me often how he loved music and how his beautiful white head might be seen at the Monday Popular Concerts, week after week, his thinker's brow thrown back to catch the finest shades of Joachim's playing. The year after David Grieve appeared, Mr.
But Lucretius's philosophy, like all the philosophies of the older world, was a mere speculative idea, a fancy picture of the development of things, not dependent upon observation of facts at all, but wholly evolved, like the German thinker's camel, out of its author's own pregnant inner consciousness.
Realities in themselves can be there FOR any one, whether pragmatist or anti-pragmatist, only by being believed; they are believed only by their notions appearing true; and their notions appear true only because they work satisfactorily. Satisfactorily, moreover, for the particular thinker's purpose. It is the idea that most satisfactorily meets your present interest.
His bodily frame, which by assiduous care he had maintained as a worthy organ of his mind, sank into weakness. His last years, his last hours even, are described by his well-beloved disciple and friend Wasianski with a faithful and pathetic minuteness which, in the view of some of the great thinker's deepest admirers, might well have been less microscopic.
I question whether persons who think most that is who have most conscious thought pass through their mind necessarily do most mental work. Every new idea planted in a real thinker's mind grows when he is least conscious of it." Maudsley says: "It would go hard with mankind indeed, if they must act wittingly before they acted at all.
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