NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 February 1889
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.
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