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they had a not inconsiderable influence upon the 2. 



Influence of 



philosophy of the schools. an influence which made extramural 



teaching on 



itself felt later on when the logical consequences of the schools, 

 the transcendental position had been clearly stated and 

 its possibilities for a time exhausted. In the mean- 

 time, though remaining in the background, attempts 

 were made to put these ideas of the opposition into a 

 more methodical form and to use them in the con- 

 struction of coherent systems of thought. Among 

 these the system of Fries l was probably the most 

 original and suggestive, while the writings of Krug were 

 the most popular. Fries came to philosophy with a 

 genuine religious interest, having been educated in a 

 sect which cultivated an inner religious life in contrast 

 to the more external clerical religion of the age. With 

 this interest, he appreciated the crude endeavours of 

 Jacobi to vindicate for religious belief a separate 

 province in the human mind, but he marks an advance 

 upon Jacobi, inasmuch as he was not content merely 

 to assert this independence but saw the necessity of 

 supporting its assertion by a correcter and fuller state- 

 ment of psychological facts. This interest in psy- 

 chology he combined with a more thorough acquaintance 

 with the mathematical sciences and their development 

 in the direction of mathematical physics. He also saw 

 the necessity of extending psychology beyond the study 

 of the individual soul into that of the collective mind 

 and its natural history, laying much stress upon 

 anthropology. Through these special interests his 



1 About Fries and his writings 

 see the note to p. 258 of the 3rd 



vol. of this history. 



