The moment such a general position is assumed there arise sundry difficulties in the application of naturalistic principles to special interests and groups of facts.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
The possible perfection of an experience which is "reduced to a swarm of impressions," and "ringed round" for each one of us by a "thick wall of personality" has been brilliantly depicted in the passage already quoted from Walter Pater, in whom the naturalistic and subjectivistic motives unite.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
For the human or naturalistic way of knowing is left in sole possession of the field, with the higher interest of reasons in the ultimate nature of being, degraded to the rank of practical faith.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry