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spiritualism which admits into its scheme the idea of 

 personality, an idea which Fichte himself never admitted 

 into his system. An adequate analysis of this con- 

 ception forms one of the principal features in Lotze's 

 speculation. 



22. Both these later aspects, that of Hegel and that of 



Fichte's 



anticipation Lotze, are suggested by many passages of Fichte's writ- 

 aspects, ings. But before they were systematically developed re- 

 spectively in the first and second third of the century, 

 other influences came into play which produced special 

 systems of thought. These stand somewhat outside of the 

 main current of German speculation. They gave rise to 

 no independent philosophical schools, though their special 

 doctrines had important influence in philosophy, science, 

 and literature. The more prominent among these are : 

 the succeeding phases of Schelling's philosophy, the 

 compact and isolated system of Schopenhauer, and the 

 religious philosophy of Schleiermacher. 



23. The interest which prompted Schelling in his earliest 



Schelling. 



philosophical speculations was not in the same degree a 

 religious interest as was the case with Fichte before and 

 Hegel after him. But he brought two other interests to 

 bear upon philosophical thought, the poetical or artistic 

 and the historical interest. In the course of his subse- 

 quent developments his receptive mind assimilated, in 

 an original manner, much of earlier and contemporary 

 thought, and led him ultimately into the depths of the 

 religious problem at a time when historical research had 

 opened out in many directions new and wider vistas of 

 inquiry. 



Schelling was thirteen years younger than Fichte, and 



