Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3. 4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1. 4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.