On the very first page Herr D hring introduces himself as When a man is in possession of the final and ultimate truth and of the only strictly scientific method, it is only natural that he should have a certain contempt for the rest of erring and unscientific humanity. We must therefore not be surprised that Herr D hring should speak of his predecessors with extreme disdain, and that there are only a few great men, thus styled by way of exception by himself, who find mercy at the bar of his "deep-rootedness". Let us hear first what he has to say about the philosophers: As for D hring's opinion of the later socialists, we shall, for the sake of brevity, cite him only on Lassalle and Marx:
1877: Anti-Duhring