Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But the most distinct personality among the guests invited by Stephen Fairbank on this occasion was undoubtedly Dr. Hermann Stoff- kraft, the well-known German Philosopher. Picture to yourself a little man, enthusiastic, single-hearted, sincere, and withal perfectly amiable, with a sanguine complexion, and with prominent eyes generally seen behind spec- tacles, active in his habits, and always rushing about, and you have a very fair notion of the outward man. With regard to his mental characteristics, they were not like those of ordinary mortals. In this country we should probably (in the rough way we have of lumping men together) call him a materialist, but Dr. Hermann Stoff- kraft might no doubt be inclined to contest the propriety of the name. He called himself a votary of the goddess Nature, apparently using that word to denote not merely the orderly succession of external phenomena with which we are brought into contact, but likewise the Power which underlies these manifestations.
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