Frederick Cuvier and several of the older metaphysicians have compared instinct with habit.

弗雷德里克·居维叶 (Frederick Cuvier) 和几位年长的形而上学家将本能与习惯进行了比较。

Even the palest of the pale are able to master him—messieurs the metaphysicians, those albinos of the intellect.

即使是最苍白的人也能掌握他——形而上学家先生们， 那些智力上的白化病患者。

They spun their webs around him for so long that finally he was hypnotized, and began to spin himself, and became another metaphysician.

他们在他周围织网很久，最后他被催眠了，开始自己织网，变成了另一个玄学家。

But the truth is that both have the same claim on our impartial attention, both are real, and both are important to the metaphysician.

但事实是，两者对我们的公正关注有相同的要求， 都是真实的， 对形而上学家来说都很重要。

Most of the great ambitious attempts of metaphysicians have proceeded by the attempt to prove that such and such apparent features of the actual world were self-contradictory, and therefore could not be real.

大多数形而上学家雄心勃勃的尝试都是为了证明现实世界的这样那样的明显特征是自相矛盾的，因此不可能是真实的。