The Study of Sensualism With a Clear Conscience

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought consisted precisely in resistance to obvious sense evidence, perhaps among men who enjoyed even stronger and more fastidious senses than our contemporaries. In this overcoming of the world, there was an enjoyment different from that which the physicists of today offer us. And likewise the Darwinists and anti-teleologists among the physiological workers with their principle of the smallest possible effort, and the greatest possible blunder. Where there is nothing more to see or to grasp, there is also nothing more for men to do.