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support, confirm, and strengthen it. Thus we find him in
this 21 quoting an interesting fact he had himself ob
served in 1815 ; then the instances of Caspar Hauser and
others (taken from Franz s book,
" The Eye," &c. &c.) ;
and again the case of Joseph Kleinhaus, the blind sculptor ;
and finally, the physiological confirmations he has found
"
in Flourens* De la vie et de 1 intelligence des Animaux."
An observation, too, concerning the value of Arithmetic
for the comprehension of physical processes, which is in
serted into this same paragraph, will be found very re
markable, and may be particularly recommended to those
who are inclined to set too high a value on calculation.
Many interesting and important additions will be found
in the other paragraphs also.
One thing I could have wished to see left out of this
Third Edition: his effusions against the "professors of
philosophy." In a conversation with Schopenhauer in
the year 1847, when he told me how he intended to
I expressed
"
chastise the professors of
l
philosophy,"
my dissent on this point ; for even in the Second Edition
these passages had interrupted the measured progress of
objective inquiry. At that time, however, he was not to be
persuaded to strike them out ; so they were left to be
again included in this Third Edition, where the reader
will accordingly once more find them, although times have
changed since then.
Upon another point, more nearly touching the real
issue, I had a controversy with Schopenhauer in the year
1852. In arguing against Fichte s derivation of the Non-
Ego from the Ego in his chief work, 2
he had said :
1 See
" Arthur Schopenhauer. Von ihm u jer ihn. Ein Wort der
;
Vertheidigung," von Ernst Otto "
Lindner, and Memorabilien, Briefe und
Nachlassstiicke," von Julius Frauenstadt (Berlin, 1863), pp. 163-165.
2
"
Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung," second
edition, i. t 37 (third edition, i., 39).