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IN speaking of Carr's philosophy, it is particularly difficult to separate the philosopher from the man. Like his first teacher, Shadworth Hodgson, he, if any man of my time did, lived the philosophic life, and, after his success in business enabled him to retire, he devoted himself entirely to cultivating philosophy in himself and others. Yet he remained rather a centre of philosophers than of philosophy, and his work was an influence rather than an achievement. He taught us, through his own devotion and through the affection he inspired, to feel that we were fellow-workers in one subject, however different in our methods of approach and I scarcely like to think what we shall do without him. Nor was it only philosophers he brought together; he also brought science and philosophy into their wholesome and natural contact. He believed that philosophy and science belonged together, and that philosophy could not be indifferent to changes in scientific ideas such as his time had witnessed. In this he was surely right. The work of the Aristotelian Society in the last twenty years is a standing witness to his success in this effort and to its fruitfulness.
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ALEXANDER, S. [Obituary]. Nature 128, 99–100 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128099a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128099a0