Note 362 — Chapter XII

“The gradual exclusion of mental by physical science from the circle of ‘philosophy’ as defined in the Cambridge Schools, belongs to the first half of the 18th, not of the 17th century,” says the author of Thorndike’s Life, but he justly adds that in the 17th century ancient philosophy and languages were yielding “to the continually-increasing influence of mathematics and natural philosophy.”—Works, vi. 166.