Lecture Four

This Richard Wahle might be called a spokesman of the men of to-day; in fact we could say that as Richard Wahle thinks, so do all those who find their way about in life through natural science. They think as he does, but he carries things to their logical conclusion, and so in him we have the strange and flagrant case of a Professor of Philosophy who wrote a large tome about the end of philosophy—a tome in which he sought to prove, out of the scientific method of thinking, that there ought to be no such thing as philosophy.