Kurze Encyklopädie der Philosophie

...matter, the darkness would become so severe through the accumulation of errors that in this area the review could finally look the way many earlier reviews of psychology (not to go back even further) actually looked. None of that! The report remains faithful; the thread is held firmly; the selection is apt; the precision is so excellent that one might ask whether a metaphysical book had ever before had the good fortune to be represented in such a way by its judge? But the verdict, Professor Drobisch leaves to the men of the field. He does not want to hold a doctrine to be true just because he has understood it. Only to recommend it for further examination has he reported on it so carefully. That the weight of the review could only be increased by such caution will be immediately apparent. May general recognition reward such beautiful efforts! This wish may be expressed here; for the keenness of the excellent man belongs unreservedly to science, and if his example acts upon other mathematicians, then metaphysics has much light to expect, but no partisan favor.