This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... less fixed than is its progress sure. What is now needed is no new system or school of philosophy, but rather the discovery and announcement of vast movements of the philosophic mind, involving all schools and systems in their sweep, and destined, after centuries of hidden growth, to be brought into conscious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... less fixed than is its progress sure. What is now needed is no new system or school of philosophy, but rather the discovery and announcement of vast movements of the philosophic mind, involving all schools and systems in their sweep, and destined, after centuries of hidden growth, to be brought into conscious activity and visible cooperation. The field of research) like a quarry wrought by successive generations, already lies strewn with fragmentary truths, which are as the chiseled stones of a structure hitherto without model even in the fancy of the builders, as they wrought apart each at his own task; but now, at last, the plan of the Divine Architect is to be displayed, the master-workmen in each science marshalled, and the perfect temple of knowledge reared, to the glory of God and for the good of mankind. This mature effort and final task of the human mind may be anticipated under the name of the ultimate philosophy, or that last summative science which is to be the fruit and goal and crown of all the sciences, as well as the means of their highest use and grandeur. Before the cognitive instinct can be satisfied, and the mass of knowledge rendered exact, coherent, and operative, the sciences themselves must be made the subject of science; must become the material, as well as instrument, of research, and their product, like other phenomena, be brought within the sphere of rational prevision and control. If we could imagine them perfected singly and apart, there would still remain the work of bringing them into logical connection, organizing them as a compact system, and concentrating them intelligently upon the social well-being; but this work really enters into their growth as well as fruition, and is so essential, they may as little...
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