很快我就找到了恩格斯的《自然辩证法》的德文版本(http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me20/me20_305.htm)和英文版本(http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm)。英文版中关于普利斯特列的一段是如下的:But this absolute knowledge has an important drawback. Just as the infinity of knowable matter is composed of the purely finite things, so the infinity of the thought which knows the absolute is composed of an infinite number of finite human minds, working side by side and successively at this infinite knowledge, committing practical and theoretical blunders, setting out from erroneous, one-sided, and false premises, pursuing false, tortuous, and uncertain paths, and often not even finding what is right when they run their noses against it (Priestley) 。