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210 THE WILL IN NATURE.
the connection, and professes independent research ; yet in
reality it is only the ancilla disguised, and it is intended no
less than its predecessor to be the servant of Theology.
Thus genuine, sincerely meant philosophy has an adversary
under the guise of an ally in University philosophy. There
fore I said long ago, that nothing would be of greater bene
fit to philosophy than for it to cease altogether to be taught
at Universities ; and if at that time I still admitted the
propriety of a brief, quite succinct course of History of
Philosophy accompanying Logic which undoubtedly ought
to be taught at Universities I have since withdrawn that
hasty concession in consequence of the following disclosure
made to us in the Gottingischen Gelehrten Anzeigen of the
1st January, 1853, p. 8, by the Ordinarius loci (one who
writes History of Philosophy in thick volumes) :
"
It could
not be mistaken that Kant s doctrine is ordinary Theism,
and that it has contributed little or nothing towards trans
forming the current views on G-od and his relation to the
world." If this is the state of the case, Universities are in
my opinion no longer the right place even for teaching
History of Philosophy. There designs and intentions reign
paramount. I had indeed long ago begun to suspect, that
History of Philosophy was taught at our Universities in
the same spirit and with the same granum sails as Philo
sophy itself, and it needed but very little to make my sus
picions certainty. Accordingly it is my wish to see both
Philosophy and its History disappear from the lecture-list,
because I desire to rescue them from the tender mercies of
But far be it from me, to wish to see
our court-councillors. 1
our professors of philosophy removed from their thriving
business at our Universities. On the contrary, what I
should like would be, to see them promoted three degrees
higher in dignity and raised to the highest faculty, as pro-
1
Hofrathe. A title of honour often given for literary and scientific
merit in Germany, and common among University professors. [Tr. s note.]