Note 6 — Chapter XVIII
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It is perilous and misleading (said the ancient Graiae, who dwell on the way to the Hesperides of philosophy) to interpret an old system by the language of modern (and especially German) idealism. It is much worse, replied Perseus, not to interpret it at all, but to repeat its magic ipsissima verba,—carefully Latinised, as if they belonged to a cabinet of fossils.