If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a , and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science — of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of— may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudo-philosophical erudition.

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