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6 Aesthetic, As Science of Expression and General Linguistic, pp. 392-394. Similarly, 

 Cassirer, in The Problem of Knowledge, has a chapter headed 'Positivism and Its 

 Ideal of Historical Knowledge: Taine', but he begins with the following 

 qualification: *He cannot be called a pupil of Comte in the strictest sense, for 

 other influences connected with German romanticism were of much more 

 effect in his education, influences diametrically opposite in trend to those of 

 Comte. But it may have been his very endeavours to overcome these influences 

 that drove him in the end to go beyond Comte in important particulars and 

 throw himself unreservedly into the arms of "naturalism". Only there could he 

 hope to find salvation from Hegel's metaphysics of history, which, unlike Comte, 

 he understood thoroughly, and which had wholly captivated him in his youth' 

 (p. 247). 



'^ Sloane, op. cit. 



8 This section incorporates material from my discussion in 'Letters Pro and 

 Con', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 



