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...Government interference is unnecessary. a Trusts are the result of modern industrial growth; Forum VIII 66. b. in Their effect has been to further and not to hinder the real interests of the general public; Polit. Sci. Quar. III. 395. c. They will disintegrate of themselves if they tend to become injurious to the public interest; Forum VIII. 69. d. Their character is as yet undeveloped and there is no certainty that legislative acts will effect them...
Professor Royce delivered his fourth lecture on Modern Thinkers in Sanders Theatre last night before a large audience. The subject was Kant. The many-sidedness of Kant's thought, the lecturer said, has in the first place made the difficulty of completely understanding him so enormous that the reading of the "Critique of Pure Reason" has become a sort of liberal profession in Germany. The age in which Kant lived was ripe for the "Critique" In twenty-five years it so thoroughly won over to metaphysics a nation previously little given to philosophy that Heine said; "God has given France...
...reached through experience. Truth exists for us because we make it. There is a divine world for us because we postulate it, because we act as if it existed. This part of Kant's doctrine is the ossence of common sense, and contains the philosophy of the modern high-minded man of the world. Kant only became difficult to understand when he proceeded to investigate all the world of experience in the light of this theory. Towards 1769 signs of a revolution in Kant's mode of thinking were visible. He became convinced that space and time did not exist...
Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy, Lecture IV: Kant. Professor Royce. Sanders Theatre...
...come suddenly, but it is a growth; it grew by a series of revisions. In the Anglo-Saxon times large parts of the Bible were translated into the three dialects that the language was divided into in England. Wickliffe, who made the first translation in what may be called modern times, translated into the Midland dialect, the dialect of Chaucer. Others helped him in the task, but he probably translated most of the New Testament; and it was finished in 1384. Tyndale's translation was the next, and his was the result of the Reformation. His translation was very thorough...