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answered questions. A business-like restlessness intrudes into the 
instruction, and yet philosophy above all needs a certain repose and 
dignity. 
Thus what we need is clear. We need a worthy monumental build¬ 
ing at a quiet central spot of the Harvard yard, a building which 
shall contain large and small lecture-rooms, seminary-rooms, a reading- 
room, and one whose upper story shall be built for a psychological 
laboratory, so that under one roof all the philosophical work, meta¬ 
physical and ethical, psychological and logical, may be combined. 
Here the elementary and the advanced work, the lecture courses 
and the researches, the seminaries and the experiments, the private 
studies in the reading-room and the conferences and meetings of the 
assistants would go on side by side. Here would be a real school of 
philosophy where all Harvard men interested in philosophy might find 
each other and where the students might meet the instructors. 
Such a home would give us first, of course, the room and the 
external opportunities for work on every plane; it would give us 
also the dignity and the repose, the unity and the comradeship of 
a philosophical academy. It would give us the inspiration resulting 
from the mutual assistance of the different parts of philosophy, 
which in spite of their apparent separation are still to-day parts of one 
philosophy only. All this would benefit the students of philosophy 
themselves, but not less good would come to the University as a 
whole. The specialization of our age has brought it about that in the j 
organization of a university, even philosophy, or rather each of the 
philosophical branches, has become an isolated study coordinated 
with others. The average student looks to psychology as to physics 
or botany; he thinks of ethics as he thinks of economics or history;'"] 
he hears about logic as coordinated with mathematics, and so on. 
The University has somewhat lost sight of the unity of all philosophical 
subjects and has above all forgotten that this united philosophy is 
more than one science among other sciences, that it is indeed the 
central science which alone has the power to give inner unity to the 
whole university work. Every year our universities reward our most 
advanced young scholars of philology and history, of literature and 
economics, of physics and chemistry, of mathematics and biology 
with the degree of Ph.D., that is of Doctor Philosophiae, thus sym¬ 
bolically expressing that all the special sciences are ultimately only 
branches of philosophy; but the truth of this symbol has faded 
away from the consciousness of the academic community. All know¬ 
ledge appears there as a multitude of scattered sciences and the fact