[41] Wilh. Wundt, Über Wege u. Ziele d. Völkerpsychologie, Leipzig, 1886.

[42] Die Sprache, Leipzig, 1900, 2 vols, (part i. of Völkerpsychologie, eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus und Sitte).

[43] Die Sprache, passim; cf. i. p. 31 seqq., ii. pp. 599, 603-609.

[44] Ethik, ed. 2, Stuttgart, 1892, p. 6.


[XVIII]

ÆSTHETIC PSYCHOLOGISM AND OTHER RECENT TENDENCIES

Neo-criticism and empiricism.

The neo-critical or neo-Kantian movement was powerless to make headway against hedonistic, psychological and moralistic views of the æsthetic fact, although it made every effort to save the concept of spirit from the invading rush of naturalism and materialism.[1] Kant bequeathed to neo-criticism his own failure to understand creative imagination, and the neo-Kantians do not seem to have had the faintest notion of any form of cognition other than the intellectual.