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Research paper thumbnail of The Story Of Philosophy-Will Durant

Grow strong, my comrade .•• that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattere... more Grow strong, my comrade .•• that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; .. That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. y vi PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION away from all these battlefronts of 'truth, and hid itself in rec-O'I1ilite and narrow lanes, timidly secure from the issues and responsibilities of life. Human knowledge had become too great for the human mind. ' All that remained was the scientific specialist, 'Who kne'llJ "more and more about less and less," and the philosophical speculator, who knew less and less about more and more. The specialist put on blinders in order to shut out from his 'Vision all the world but one little spot, to which he gl~ed his nose. Perapecti'Vewas lost. '''Facts'' replaced understanding;,' and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom; E'Very science, and e'Very branch of philosophy, developed a' technical terminology intelligible only to its exClusive devotees; as men 'learned ,more about the world, they foundtkemselves, ever less capable of expressing to their educated feUo'tlrmen what itw(1,8 that they hiullearned. ' The gap between life and knowledge grew mer and Wider; those 'Who" govemedcould not'Wnderstand those who thought.,' and those who ')icanteif/toknow comdnot understandthosetlJJho knew. 'In the midst of ,wnprecedented leaminil populo;r ignorooce flouriShed, and chose its exemplars to rule the' great'-citica of tliCworld;'in the' midst of sciences endowcd.amdenthroned•Q,8 never before,'Tt8w religions were born everg day, and' oldsuPfJr"" stitiOns recaptareil,the.ground they had• lost ... The •.comminl, man found himself forced to:ohoos8 between a scientific priest. .. .

Research paper thumbnail of The Story Of Philosophy-Will Durant

Grow strong, my comrade .•• that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattere... more Grow strong, my comrade .•• that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; .. That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. y vi PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION away from all these battlefronts of 'truth, and hid itself in rec-O'I1ilite and narrow lanes, timidly secure from the issues and responsibilities of life. Human knowledge had become too great for the human mind. ' All that remained was the scientific specialist, 'Who kne'llJ "more and more about less and less," and the philosophical speculator, who knew less and less about more and more. The specialist put on blinders in order to shut out from his 'Vision all the world but one little spot, to which he gl~ed his nose. Perapecti'Vewas lost. '''Facts'' replaced understanding;,' and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom; E'Very science, and e'Very branch of philosophy, developed a' technical terminology intelligible only to its exClusive devotees; as men 'learned ,more about the world, they foundtkemselves, ever less capable of expressing to their educated feUo'tlrmen what itw(1,8 that they hiullearned. ' The gap between life and knowledge grew mer and Wider; those 'Who" govemedcould not'Wnderstand those who thought.,' and those who ')icanteif/toknow comdnot understandthosetlJJho knew. 'In the midst of ,wnprecedented leaminil populo;r ignorooce flouriShed, and chose its exemplars to rule the' great'-citica of tliCworld;'in the' midst of sciences endowcd.amdenthroned•Q,8 never before,'Tt8w religions were born everg day, and' oldsuPfJr"" stitiOns recaptareil,the.ground they had• lost ... The •.comminl, man found himself forced to:ohoos8 between a scientific priest. .. .