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Prag 2
Socrates bathed in these waters. Aristotle rejoices when he can find them. They run, where best one would suspect them, beneath the dry
rubbish-heaps of Spinoza. Those clean definitions that strew the pages of the "Essay concerning Humane Understnaing"(preface to reform the spelling) had been washed out in the same pure springs. It was this medium, and not tar-water, that gave health and strength to Berkeley's earlier works, his 'Theory of Vision' and what remains of his 'Principles.' From it the general views of Kant derives such clearness as they have. Auguste Comte made still more much more, use of this element; as much as he saw his way to using. Unfortunately, however, both he and Kant, in their rather opposite ways, more in the habit of mingling these sparkling waters with a certain mental sedative to which many men are addicted, and the burly business men very likely to their benefit, but which plays sad havoc