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reached under influences which made themselves felt 

 when he left the Weimar circle, migrating to Munich 

 and later to Berlin. But before referring more ex- 

 plicitly to this further advance of his speculation, it will 

 be necessary for us to understand and appreciate the 

 last great step which the idealistic philosophy took, and 

 by which it for a time riveted the attention of all think- 

 ing minds in Germany, and later on also in other 

 countries of Europe. 



25. This last step was taken by Hegel, who had for some 



time (1800 to 1806) worked together with Schelling, 

 who was a younger countryman and friend of his, in 

 editing a critical journal of philosophy. The object they 

 had in view was to bring out more clearly the character- 

 istics of the latest form of the idealistic philosophy, the 

 Philosophy of the Absolute, as opposed to the earlier 

 teachings of Eeinhold and Fichte. It has, however, 

 been correctly remarked that the orbit in which Hegel's 

 ideas moved and developed was different from that of 

 Schelling; that their courses met only for a short time 

 in order to separate again and to diverge more and more. 

 This divergence was clearly manifested when Hegel 

 published, in 1807, his first great work, the ' Phenomen- 

 ology of Mind.' l Perhaps it would be more correct to 



its ethical and educational import- forth lost all sympathy with what 



ance. The endeavour to give ex- he termed Fichte's "improved" 



pression to these two new lines of doctrine. 



thought, but in the original spirit J The estrangement between 



of the Wissenschaftdehre, is mani- Schelling and Hegel was of quite a 



fest in those lectures. Schelling, different kind from that between 



rightly or wrongly, in his Tract of Fichte and Schelling, and not accom- 



the year 1806, regarded this as an panied by violent mutual recrimin- 



indication of a change of front, ations before the eyes of the world, 



brought about through his own It seems as if Schelling had been 



" philosophy of nature," and hence- taken by surprise when he read the 



