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PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



8. 



As also 

 between 

 scientific 

 and phil- 

 osophical 

 literature. 



standard works on the history of philosophy at one 

 time scarcely mentions the name of Schleiermacher, still 

 less that of Kothe or of Eitschl, although each of these 

 authors developed an independent and original principle 

 in dealing with religious or spiritual phenomena. 1 On 

 the other side we find the religious speculations of 

 Schelling, Baader, Weisse, and Lotze more or less ex- 

 haustively dealt with, though their knowledge of certain 

 important regions of religious life and thought was 

 much less comprehensive and thorough than that of 

 the others. It is as well to remark that this particular- 

 istic spirit was not displayed only in this department of 

 philosophic thought, but that it existed also in other 



1 The progress towards a more 

 general conception of the philo- 

 sophical interest is nowhere more 

 conspicuous than in the changes 

 which have been introduced into 

 the subsequent editions of that 

 most indispensable historical work, 

 the ' Grundriss der Geschichte der 

 Philosophic, ' founded by Fr. Ueber- 

 weg (1862-1866), and re-edited on 

 a broad basis and large principles 

 by Dr Max Heinze. The fourth 

 volume, containing the ' History of 

 Philosophy since the beginning of 

 the Nineteenth Century,' reached, 

 in 1906, the tenth edition. The 

 names mentioned in the text, to- 

 gether with many others formerly 

 omitted, are now introduced, and 

 their works adequately referred to. 

 The more rigid division of the sub- 

 ject which kept philosophy and the- 

 ology apart during the earlier por- 

 tion of the century was probably 

 largely owing to two distinct causes : 

 first, to an opposition to the popu- 

 lar philosophy of the eighteenth 

 century, and to a desire to intro- 

 duce a strict method and logical 



discipline into the philosophical 

 teaching at the universities ; and, 

 secondly, later on to a secret tend- 

 ency nursed in the school of Hegel 

 to transform theological into phil- 

 osophical dogmatics, also to look 

 upon the line of reasoning which 

 runs through the idealistic systems 

 as the true backbone of all phil- 

 osophy, compared with which other 

 speculations, naturalistic on the 

 one side, theological on the other, 

 have only collateral, but no truly 

 systematic, importance. The latter 

 tendency is probably most distinctly 

 evident in Kuno Fischer's great 

 History. It was, however, con- 

 siderably mitigated in the later 

 editions, an'd is, so far as one can 

 see at present, gradually disappear- 

 ing among those numerous scholars 

 whom he inspired with a truly 

 historical spirit. My friend, Pastor 

 0. Zuckschwerdt (Glasgow), re- 

 marks, however, that in Wu'rtem- 

 berg (Tubingen) philosophical and 

 theological studies were always 

 cultivated together. 



