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mathematical training which Kant brought to its 

 interpretation. And even Hegel, with all his mar- 

 vellous constructive power and comprehensiveness 

 in thought-forms of his own, and with all his 

 resolute pursuit of objective knowledge that should 

 be at once philosophical and scientific, took up 

 Kant chiefly, if not solely, on his formal ideal side, 

 and was still too much swayed by Fichte and 

 Schelling and the spell of the Greek metaphysics, 

 to give more than a new dialectical elaboration of 

 Kant's speculative system and of the idealised world 

 of history, in which he moved as a master. 

 The truest scientific follower of Kant in the philo- 

 sophic schools was Herbart, in his own chair at 

 Konigsberg, who likewise drank deeply of the fresh 

 invigorating stream of the Newtonian philosophy, 

 and who brought to bear upon the problems of 

 thought a mathematical facility and a devotion to 

 exact science, kindred to that of Kant himself. As 

 Aristotle said of Anaxagoras, Herbart, amid the 

 idealistic intoxication of the time, with his severe 

 sobriety of thought and self-limitation to the world 

 of reality, seems now to be * as one sober among the 

 drunken.' But Herbart has hardly yet been seriously 

 studied in England, except by the representatives 

 of the new psychology which he originated, and the 

 educationists who have found their best guidance 

 in his suggestive methods. Krause excelled all the 

 other great epigons of Kant in the precision of his 

 higher psychological analysis, and the incisiveness 



