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THIS book is not likely to appeal to many readers of NATURE. “Neinia,” or Neinda, represents the wish of the author to recognise any and every point of view as equally leginmate, although he personally professes to be an enemy of mystic metaphysics and a friend materialism. He belongs to no particular philosophical school, but desires to think merely for the sake of thinking, without intending to prove any more or less unconsciously preconceived notions. This thinking cannot lead to any positive conclusion, and the book ends, characteristically enough, first with the sentence, “I believe nothing and therefore I believe everything,” and then with the colophon, “U.S.W. ad infin.” The author claims for his book the advantage that one may begin to read it in the middle or from the end. This is no empty boast, for without wishing to depreciate a thinker who is evidently an earnest man, we cannot call his book anything but a collection of aphorisms.
Neinia, Denkversuche.
By O. K. Kremer. Pp. 420. (Vienna and Leipzig: E. Beyers, 1907.)
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Neinia, Denkversuche . Nature 76, 172–173 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076172c0
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