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But phiosoply is, as yet, not a science in that scrict sense.
It is merely what this man and that man is inclinced to think; and Herbert Spencer himself in declining a nomination as one of the Foreign Associates of the Paris Academy of Science, put his declination on the ground that his work had not been scientific work.

For the present, then, the questions that we ask in order to estimate a man's greatness in philosophy are first What great conceptions did he introduce into philosophy?
Second, what line of thought did he follow out so far and so consistently as be very instructive either as showing the great power