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the history of philosophy for the first time when he 

 published his ' Elements of Psycho-Physics.' Although 

 therefore more modern philosophers such as Wundt 

 and Paulsen have acknowledged their indebtedness to 

 Fechner's metaphysical views, it can hardly be main- 

 tained that before the year 1860 he had any leading 

 influence on the course of philosophical thought ; and it 

 is the history of the latter and not of philosophy as such 

 that we are concerned with. 



Eduard von Hartmann's position is quite different. 

 He is frequently named together with Lotze and 

 Fechner as being one of the three philosophers who, 

 after Hegel and Schopenhauer, attempted to build 

 philosophical systems on the broad basis of the in- 

 ductive sciences. Again, we find him classed with 

 Schopenhauer as a prominent representative of 

 Pessimism. And lastly, his system may be character- 

 ised as an attempted reconciliation of the intellectualism 

 of Hegel with the voluntarism of Schopenhauer, some- 

 what on the lines shadowed forth in the later specula- 

 tions of ScheUing. Personally his philosophical career 

 differs from that of Schopenhauer, who remained 

 neglected for a long time. The success of Hartmann's 

 first and typical work 1 was quite phenomenal. It 

 ran through many editions in a comparatively short 



analogies led him to the conviction found in Prof. Wundt's ' Centenary 



that there is a definite quantitative Address' (1901). It is published 



relation between the mental and in separate form, and contains 



the material. By working out this valuable additions and personal 



thought more exactly, he became reminiscences. 



the founder of psycho - physics or 1 ' Die Philosophic des Unbe- 



experimental psychology." One of wussten ' (1st ed., 1869 ; llth ed., 



the best characteristics of Fechner's in 3 vols., 1904). 

 personality and speculation will be 



