Foundations of the Nineteenth Century Volume N . 2 12+

📖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...and childish teleology. We had to begin to rear the edifice of an absolutely new philosophy, which should answer to the requirements of the Teutonic horizon and the Teutonic tendency of mind. In that connection Descartes, who was born before Bruno died, acquired an importance which affected the history of the world, in that he, exactly as his ancestors, the daring seafarers, insisted on systematically doubting everything traditional and on fearlessly investigating the Unknown. I shall return to this later. All these things resulted from the geographical discoveries. Naturally they cannot be regarded as effects following causes, but certainly as events which had been occasioned by definite occurrences. Had we possessed freedom, the historical development of our work of discovery might have been different, as we see clearly enough from the example of Roger Bacon; however, naiura sese adjuvat; all paths but that of geo I find the passage quoted thus in several places, but the only remark of the kind which I know in the original is somewhat diflerent: II molo dcausa d'ogm' vita (Motion is the cause of all life) (in J. P. Richter's edition of the Scritli lclierari di Leonardo do Vinci, ii. 286, Fragment No. 1139). The former quotations are taken from Nos. 865 and ...