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"The Society adopts, as its first and indispensable principle, to attach itself, as a Society, to none of the several Schools or Lines of Thought, which still, unhappily, divide the philosophical world. It is, on the contrary, its chief endeavour and boast, that adherents of any, or all the schools, as well as men who are independent of all, can and do meet as members of it on an equal footing, with equal freedom of discussion, and with equal welcome to propound their views. In no other way, the Society holds, is it possible to attain the end of philosophical discussion and study, the establishment of Philosophy as one, more and greater than individual philosophers, just as Science is one, more and greater than individual scientists."
"Circular to the Executive Committee of the Aristotelian Society" (1883)
Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, President (1880-1894)
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