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._ p. v. Few scholars are critics, few critics are philosophers, and few philosophers look with equal care on both sides of a question.--W. S. LANDOR in HOLYOAKE'S _Agitator's Life_, ii. 15. Introduire dans l'histoire, et sans tenir compte des passions politiques et religieuses, le doute methodique que Descartes, le premier, appliqua a l'etude de la philosophie, n'est-ce pas la une excellente methode? n'est-ce pas meme la meilleure?--CHANTELAUZE, _Correspondant_, 1883, i. 129. La critique historique ne sera jamais populaire. Comme elle est de toutes les sciences la plus delicate, la plus deliee, elle n'a de credit qu'aupres des esprits cultives.--CHERBULIEZ, _Revue des Deux Mondes_, xcvii. 517. Nun liefert aber die Kritik, wenn sie rechter Art ist, immer nur einzelne Data, gleichsam die Atome des Thatbestandes, und jede Kombination, jede Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerung, ohne die es doch einmal nicht abgeht, ist ein subjektiver Akt des Forschers. Demnach blieb Waitz, bei der eigenen Arbeit wie bei jener der anderen, immer hoechst mistrauisch gegen jedes Resume, jede Definition, jedes abschliessende Wort.--SYBEL, _Historische Zeitschrift_, lvi. 484. Mit blosser Kritik wird darin nichts ausgerichtet, denn die ist nur eine Vorarbeit, welche da aufhoert wo die echte historische Kunst anfaengt.--LASAULX, _Philosophie der Kuenste_, 212. [61] The only case in which such extraneous matters can be fairly called in is when facts are stated resting on testimony; then it is not only just, but it is necessary for the sake of truth, to inquire into the habits of mind of him by whom they are adduced.--BABBAGE, _Bridgewater Treatise_, p. xiv. [62] There is no part of our knowledge which it is more useful to obtain at first hand--to go to the fountain-head for--than our knowledge of History.--J. S. MILL, _Inaugural Address_, 34. The only sound intellects are those which, in the first instance, set their standard of proof high.--J. S. MILL, _Examination of Hamilton's Philosophy_, 525. [63] There are so few men mentally capable of seeing both sides of a question; so few with consciences sensitively alive to the obligation of seeing both sides; so few placed under conditions either of circumstance or temper, which admit of their seeing both sides.--GREG, _Political Problems_, 1870, 173. Il n'y a que les Allemands qui sachent etre aussi completement objectifs. Ils se dedoublent, pour ainsi dire, en deux hommes, l'un qui a des pri
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