508 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



Lotze has fully dealt with this problem, which seemed to 

 be pushed into the foreground by the Panlogism and 

 seeming Pantheism of the Hegelian philosophy, a defect 

 which was prominently before the mind of Schelling in 

 the later phases of his speculation. A voluminous 

 literature sprang up in Germany about the middle of 

 the century, which was mainly occupied with an analysis 

 of the idea of a Deity and the idea of Personality. 

 The most prominent thinker of the school was Ch. H. 

 Weisse, who exerted an important early influence upon 

 Lotze's ideas. I intend, in a later chapter, to deal specially 

 with this phase of thought, which starts from, and tries 

 to substantiate, the conviction that the Christian version 

 of the doctrine of the Deity and the Divine Order affords 

 the highest solution of the problem of Eeality so far as 

 this is accessible to, and demanded by, human reason. 

 47. The second great difficulty refers to the moral side of 



ofE^L em Eeality. It has been maintained that the existence of 

 Evil and Sin is irreconcilable with the conception of a 

 Divine and moral World - Order. This problem also 

 seemed to many to have been insufficiently treated in the 

 Hegelian philosophy, and it was this which occupied 

 Schelling throughout the last fifty years of his life. 

 Also the systems which stand outside of that continuity 

 which characterises the idealistic movement, notably 

 those of Schleiermacher and Schopenhauer, as well as 

 the whole class of thinkers who came under the influence 

 of the latter, make the problem of Good and Evil the 

 most important part of their speculations. Lotze has 

 fully analysed the different trains of thought which are 

 suggested by this problem. It is, if not the highest, 



