Hippolyte Taine,
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise…
“ Our professor's method is not, in any case, that of common school logic, where the truths all stand in a row, each holding by the skirts of the other; but at best that of practical reason, proceeding by large intuition over whole systematic groups and kingdoms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost like that of Nature, reigns in his philosophy, or spiritual picture of Nature: a mighty maze, yet, as faith whispers, not without a plan. 87: To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it. ”
