"The metaphysical explanation is an obstacle, because it withdraws attention from the close scrutiny of facts, and del…"

"Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or un…"

"It eminently desirable that the growing practice of secondhand citation should be discouraged; since our native infir…"

"It is difficult to speak of Aristotle without exaggeration: he is felt to be so mighty, and is known to be so wrong."

"The splendour of his fame perpetuates the memory of his failure, and to be just we must appreciate both."

"His intellect was piercing and comprehensive; his attainments surpassed those of every known philosopher; his influen…"

"All ancient writers, except, perhaps, Thucydides, are uncritical in their reception of facts. Even in our own critica…"

"The ancients had not risen to the conception of what constitutes evidence; they were as credulous as children; and ac…"

"Often in antagonism... he is never in hostility to Plato. Indeed, in the Ethics, he complains of the necessity of att…"

"The distinction between the essence of a thing and the essence of our conception of a thing had not then been admitte…"