Excerpt from Consumption and Its Treatment in All Its Forms
Present era of science. No sooner had Kant revolutionized the heads of thinking men than it became the object to define every sen tence with mathematical clearness. The use of the dead letters and words were avoided, and since then we observe the entire separation of science from theology and mystical philosophy. The dead lan guages are to - day super uous, positive facts and absolute reasoning having taken their places. That such a mental revolution as that produced by Kant, cannot in the short period of its existence be gen eral, is easily comprehensible, especially as it sweeps before it old customs and habits of mental lethargy and mysticism, and thereby creates an almost universal opposition. We, therefore, find to-day an actual opposition and con ict between the old and the new. In this fight the old is passive and helpless; the colossal fabrics of former creeds, dogmas or systems, and grandeur, must submit to be cut down by the sharpness of a new age of reason, of absolute science.
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