Quote: the faculty of reason has a natural desire to build a self-subsistent systematic whole by ideas alone

Quotation

There exists in the faculty of reason a natural desire to venture beyond the field of experience, to attempt to reach the utmost bounds of all knowledge by the help of ideas alone, and not to rest satisfied, until it has fulfilled its course and raised the sum of its knowledge into a self- subsistent systematic whole.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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