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Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 33: September, 1919 Nothing was more abhorrent to Paul Carus than the type of individual who hides his want of principle and lack of character behind professions of sublime idealism, or seeks to justify his crippled moral nature by convenient catchwords which the philos Ophies of subjectivism have always furnished in abundance. Paul Carus belonged to a generation which exemplified the power Of German idealism to build strong and sterling characters and belied the foolish attempts of certain philosophasters to fasten the guilt of the recent world catastrophe upon the Kantian view of the world. A staunch believer in the inexorable demands of reason and of the moral law, he was far from being a moral rigorist, but a teacher of deepest insight into human nature, full of sympathy for its weak nesses and frailties. As a scholar of comprehensive knowledge in many fields he had little patience with the arrogance of academic specialists and their conception of science as a huge factory in which the single workman is permitted to produce but one piece Of the machinery of knowledge. At the same time his humility Of spirit, his kindness and helpfulness won him countless friends in many lands and in all walks of life. Having been a victim of the autocracy of his native country, his liberty-loving soul embraced the hospitable land which had given him shelter and the Opportunity to develop his talents with all the gratitude and patriotism Of which it was capable, but he resented the inhuman demand to hate his kin, remembering the Biblical male-diction: And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. His reverence for the founders of our Republic and its Constitution knew no bounds, hence he looked with grave patriotic misgivings upon the machinations of certain selfish politicians who were frivolously playing with the destiny Of our nation as marked out by its founders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.