Idealism led him to
philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off.
I wondered if Moxon knew the significance and breadth of his thought--the scope of this momentous generalization; or had he arrived at his
philosophic faith by the tortuous and uncertain road of observation?
The medieval chroniclers were mostly mere annalists, brief mechanical recorders of external events, and the few more
philosophic historians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not attain the first rank.
He was too
philosophic and simple to be vindictive, and he lived too much in the world of mind to miss the creature comforts we were giving up.
He recalled his own criticisms of Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of
philosophic insight.
He honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for the artistic temperament, and his idleness for
philosophic calm.
Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of
philosophic thought." Hurrah
I had four preferences: first, music; second, poetry; third, the writing of
philosophic, economic, and political essays; and, fourth, and last, and least, fiction writing.
Then a soul which forgets cannot be ranked among genuine
philosophic natures; we must insist that the philosopher should have a good memory?
Had he possessed a perfectly
philosophic or scientific temper he would have hesitated.
Now there was left with him, at least, a
philosophic acquiescence to the existing order--only a desire to be permitted to exist, with now and then a little whiff of genuine life, such as he was breathing now.
But there are perchance, other readers, who have not found it useless to study the aesthetic and
philosophic thought concealed in this book, and who have taken pleasure, while reading "Notre-Dame-de-Paris," in unravelling beneath the romance something else than the romance, and in following