another Ortega passage

Again from What Is Philosophy?, this time from pages 47-48 and 49 and 50:

“Each of us is half what he is and half what he is made to be by the atmosphere in which he lives. When the latter coincides favorably with the peculiar make-up of the individual, our personality becomes entirely realized, feels itself supported and confirmed by its surroundings and is spurred to an expansion of its interior resources. When the surrounding atmosphere (which is a part of us) is hostile to us, it forces us to a perpetual state of struggle and dissociation, it depresses us and makes it difficult for our personality to develop and come to full fruition. This latter is what happened to philosophers in the atmosphere imposed upon them by the tyrants of the experiment… Philosophy had been reduced to little more than a theory of knowledge. This is what the greater part of the books on philosophy published between 1860 and 1920 call themselves… The assumption, neither discussed nor discussable, which the thinker of the mid-nineteenth century carried in his very bloodstream, was that in the strict sense of the word there is no other knowledge than that contained in physical science, that there is no other truth but ‘physical truth.'”