Word: naturalists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...party of twelve, consisting not only of Hopkins students. but also of professors from other colleges. spent March, April, May and June at New Providence, near Nassau. The third year the university was unable to send out an organized force, but Dr. H. V. Wilson, who is now resident naturalist at the Government fishing station at Wood's Holl, Mass., spent several months at Green Turtle Key, in the study of marine life...
Schopenhauer marks the transition to the modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature...