OF THE SPIRIT. 373 



separate problems as occupied German thinkers some- 

 what earlier in the century. Thus we have, first of ei. 



Discussion 



all, the discussion of the problem of Personality from of Person- 

 different points of view, prominently the question to 

 what extent a scheme such as that of Hegel's admits or 

 rejects the conception of Personality. Among many 

 other writings I mention as typical Professor Pringle 

 Pattison's Lectures entitled, ' Hegelianism and Person- 

 ality ' (1887), and the lengthy discussions carried on in 

 English and American philosophical reviews around this 

 question. 



A second point was urged by Green himself, who dis- 62. 

 cussed at some length the difference of empirical and and trans- 



cendental 



transcendental consciousness, of a natural and super- conscious- 

 ness. 



natural order. And here we meet again with various 

 shades of opinion, according as the higher or uni- 

 versal order is considered to be transcendent to, or 

 immanent in, the natural order of things : discussions 

 which remind us of much that we have read in Lotze's 

 writings. 



The third important single problem included in the es. 



o, . . i i The ethical 



larger problem of the Spirit, which we meet with in problem, 

 continental speculations, the ethical problem, has like- 

 wise occupied thinkers of the idealistic school in this 

 country. But here it has in general taken a more 

 practical turn ; it is not so much the metaphysical 

 difficulty of the existence of evil which troubled the 

 mind of Schelling, which also Lotze declares to be 

 intellectually insoluble ; it is rather the relation of 

 practical morality and religion that has been pushed 



