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They are not a philosophical race English: Bacon
representsan attack on the philosophical spiritgenerally,
Hobbes,Hume, and Locke,an abasement,and a depreciation
of the idea of a "philosopher" for more than a century. It
was againstHume that Kant uprose and raised himself;
it was Locke of whom Schellingrightlysaid,"Je meprise
Locke" ; in the struggleagainsthe Englishmechanical stultification
of the world,Hegel and Schopenhauer(alongwith
Goethe)were of one accord;the two hostile brother-geniuses
in philosophy, who pushedin different directionstowards the
oppositepolesof German thought,and therebywrongedeach
other as onlybrothers will do." What is lackingin England,
and has alwaysbeen lackingțhat half-actor and rhetorician
knew well enough,the absurd muddle-head,Carlyle,who
soughtto conceal under passionategrimaceswhat he knew
real
about himself: namely,what was lacking in "
Carlyle
power of intellect, real depth of intellectual perception, short,philosophy.It is characteristic of such an unphilosophicalrace
to hold on firmlyto
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Christianitythey need
its discipline for "moralising"and humanising. The Englishman,
the German
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more gloomy,sensual,headstrong,and brutal than
for that very reason, as the baser of the
two, also the most pious:he has all the more need of
Christianity. To finernostrils, thisEnglishChristianity
itself
has still a characteristic Englishtaint of spleenand alcoholic
excess, for which, owing to good reasons, it is used as an
antidote" the finer poisonto neutralise the coarser: a finer
form of poisoningis in fact a step in advance with coarsemannered
people,a step towards spiritualisation. The
Englishcoarseness and rustic demureness is stillmost satis-