cerned. They were engaged with the special natural sciences and 

 held aloof from Trpcorr? 0tXoo-o<m, to use Aristotle's phrase, or meta- 

 physics or philosophy, as the word has been employed in the fore- 

 going chapters. And for long they had reason for such aloofness, 

 for, just as theology had directed philosophy and the sciences into 

 barren and fruitless lands, so philosophy itself, liberated from the 

 bondage of theology, but in slavery again to Aristotle had failed 

 to be of any genuine assistance to the special sciences and had, by 

 its insistence upon the purely deductive method, hindered progress 

 and discovery. The enfranchisement, however, of the special 

 sciences and their remarkable success could not but have an effect 

 upon philosophic speculation, and, in succeeding history, this is 

 to be seen quite clearly. Yet that effect was only partial. It was 

 evident, however, upon both the so-called Empiricistic tendency, 

 and the so-called Rationalistic philosophy. The development of 

 each of these and the irreconcilability of their conclusions made 

 possible and necessary the work of Kant, who, in his Critical 

 Philosophy, by attempting to show the fallacies, at once, of Em- 

 piricism and Rationalism, pointed to a more adequate solution of 

 the world -problem. 



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