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from its connection with German culture, which
culture, all
thingsconsidered, has been an elevation and a diviningrefinement
of the historical sense; but precisely at this point
Schopenhauerhimself was poor, irreceptive, and im-German
to the extent of ingeniousness.) On the whole,speaking
generally, it may justhave been the humanness,all-toohumanness
of the modem philosophers themselves, in short,
theircontemptibleness, which has injuredmost radically the
reverence for philosophyand opened the doors to the instinct
of the populace.Let it but be acknowledgedto what
an extent our modem world divergesfrom the whole style
of the world of Heraclites, Plato,Empedocles,and whatever
else allthe royaland magnificent anchoritesof the spirit were
called;and with what justice an honest man of science may
feel himself of a better familyand origin,in view of such
representatives of philosophy,who, owing to the fashion
of the presentday,are justas much aloft as theyare down
"
below Germany, for instancețhe two lions of Berlin,
the anarchist Eugen Diihringand the amalgamistEduard
von Hartmann. It is especi"illy the sightof those hotchpotch
philosophers, who callthemselves "realists," or "positivists,"
which is calculated to implanta dangerousdistmst
in the soul of a young and ambitious scholar: those philosophers,
at the best,are themselves but scholars and specialists,
that is very evident! All of them are persons who have
broughtback againunder the dominion
been vanquishedand
of science, who at one time or another claimed more from
themselves, without havinga rightto the "more" and its
"
responsibility and who now, creditably, rancorouslyand
vindictively, representin word and deed,disbelief in the
master- task and
i
supremacy of philosophy.After all,hcv
could itbe otherwise? Science flourishesnowadaysand has
the good conscience clearlyvisible on
itscoimtensince;while