ABSTRACT
‘It required the crude and uncompromising virility of the buccinatores novi temporis to take the new science out of the worn framework of the traditional metaphysics which they inherited with it. If their next action was to try to reverse the position and to place metaphysics in a scientific framework, if they thought it possible to carry the methods and conclusions of triumphant science into subjects where they could bring only a new confusion based on another misunderstanding, doubtless that was the price that the dying remnant they had vanquished taught them to exact.’
