The Struggle Against Platonism in Europe

Dogmatic philosophy has been a caricature of this kind, for instance the Vedanta doctrine in Asia and Platonism in Europe. We owe to it, and to its super-terrestrial pretensions in Asia and Egypt, the grand style of architecture. The struggle against Plato produced in Europe a magnificent tension of soul such as had not existed anywhere previously. With such a tensely strained bow, one can now aim at the furthest goals.