And how is this impersonality or absoluteness of the conditions of knowledge to be established ?
We might thus get particular instances or cases of these laws, but we could never get the laws themselves in their universality, far less absolute impersonality.
Cousin's doctrine of spontaneity in volition can hardly be said to be more successful than his impersonality of the reason through.
As yet no means are known which call so much into action as a great war, that rough energy born of the camp, that deep impersonality born of hatred, that conscience born of murder and cold-bloodedness, that fervour born of effort in the annihilation of the enemy, that proud indifference to loss, to one's own existence, to that of one's fellows, to that earthquake-like soul-shaking which a people needs when it is losing its vitality."