W. James II

“In a subject like philosophy it is really fatal to lose connexion with the open air of human nature, and to think in terms of shop-tradition only. In Germany the forms are so professionalized that anybody who has gained a teaching chair and written a book, however distorted and eccentric, has the legal right to figure forever in the history of the subject like a fly in amber.”

Excerto de: William James. “A Pluralistic Universe.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/pt/book/a-pluralistic-universe/id506308836?mt=11