The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Book 5, chapter 5

About Square, stoical philosopher - or philosophe, more like - , discovered in Molly's bed.

Philosophers are composed of flesh and blood as well as other human creatures; and however sublimated or refined the theory of these may be, a little practical frailty is as incident to them as to other mortals.

It is, indeed, in theory only, and not in practice, as we have before hinted, that consists the difference: for though such great beings think much better and more wisely, they always act exactly like other men.

Reading Tom Jones.

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