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Sidgwick. None of these thinkers, with perhaps the 

 exception of Lotze, have received much attention outside 

 of their own country, and Lotze himself, though he for 

 a time kept the philosophical interest from completely 

 dying out at the Universities, has, even at the present 

 moment, hardly received that attention in his own 

 country which his writings deserve. The reason is to 

 be found mainly in this, that he is, since Leibniz, the 

 only thinker who had an equal knowledge of the sciences 

 of Nature and of those of Mind; that he kept the 

 principles of both distinctly apart; and that accordingly, 

 in the popular estimation, the dualistic character of his 

 writings and his extreme cautiousness made him appear 

 inconclusive. To this must be added the further 

 characteristic that he had no genuine historical interest, 

 and little appreciation for formal logic, two provinces 

 of research which had received special attention among 

 Hegel's followers as well as among his opponents; and 

 these at the time made up almost the entire philosoph- 

 ical public. His sudden death in the year 1881 pre- 

 vented him from putting the final touches to the 

 systematic statement of his views, though it is doubtful 

 whether the third volume of the ' System ' would have 

 given us more than what we find less systematically 

 stated in the ' Microcosmus.' 

 14. Nevertheless, Lotze has introduced, or at least pre- 



Lotze's view 



c iai c o e - rning P are d> a new view of the position of Philosophy and of 



thought. philosophical thought ; that which is becoming more and 



more acceptable to the modern mind, that also which 



has been adopted in this History and explained in the 



