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| | Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Chpt. 2) |
 | | In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of the 18th century, had arisen the new German philosophy, culminating in Hegel. |
 | | To the metaphysician, things and their mental reflexes, ideas, are isolated, are to be considered one after the other and apart from each other, are objects of investigation fixed, rigid, given once for all. |
 | | His theory, half a century later, was established mathematically by Laplace, and half a century after that, the spectroscope proved the existence in space of such incandescent masses of gas in various stages of condensation. |
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