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PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



9. 

 Schleier* 



macher. 



England. 



the philosophical side, who had, in fact, given as much 

 attention to the religious problem, viewed from the side 

 of the religious teacher, as he had given to it viewed 

 from the side of the philosophic thinker. This was 

 Schleiermacher. But the very fact that even he thought 

 it necessary to keep the two aspects separate, as, 

 e.g., in his Philosophical and Christian Ethics, did 

 much to confirm that dual position in the treatment 

 of the religious problem which is such a character- 

 istic feature of religious philosophy in Germany. With 

 10. this we may contrast the position of religious speculation 

 dualism in i n this country : here we find that fully one-half of 

 those thinkers who have moulded the philosophical 

 thought of their age and country were theologians. At 

 the head of all stands George Berkeley, Bishop of 

 Cloyne, perhaps the greatest speculative genius which 

 this country has produced ; and only second to him in 

 importance come names like Bishop Butler, Samuel 

 Clarke, Thomas Keid, Dean Mansel, and James Mar- 

 tineau. No such array of important theologians ex- 

 ercising decisive influence upon philosophical thought 

 can be shown in Germany, in spite of the very much 

 larger number of original thinkers both religious and 

 philosophical which that country can boast of. The 

 theological profession has in this country never stood 

 in the way of recognition of genuine and unbiassed 

 philosophical thought, 1 and it is perhaps not too much 

 to say that the religious problem will never be ade- 



1 " En Angleterre ... la the- 

 ologie naturelle est une science 

 classique qui n'est pas negligee 

 un instant. Kile y est regardee 



comme indispensable a la the'ologie 

 chre'tienne, qui sansellelanguirait." 

 (Charles de Re"musat, 'Philosophic 

 Religieuse,' 1864, p. 4.) 



