Note 43 — XI BUDDHISM AND THE PROBLEM OF THOUGHT

Positivism itself calls attention to this quality of non-actuality in its system. In the Foreword to the second volume of R. Avenarius’s Kritik der reinen Erfahrung, J. Petzold says, “Modern psychology is ... characterized by the elimination from the psychic machinery of every spring of activity.” Here it is as with Roland’s mare in Chamisso’s poem: Perfect—but dead!