Its author never seems to be able to make up his mind whether he is writing history or polemic.... confers on philosophers who are dead and gone a kind of false contemporaneity which may make them seem important to the uninitiate.
Penulisnya tampak tidak pernah bisa mengambil keputusan apakah ia menulis sejarah atau polemik .... mengagungkan filsuf yang mati dan melakukan semacam contemporaneity palsu yang mungkin membuat mereka tampak penting bagi uninitiate.