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7. opposition which was prepared by Kant, to which 



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the n thou S ht Schleiermacher g ay e special expression, and which is 

 of the day. p er h a p g most clearly brought out in Albrecht Kitschl's 

 theology. The system of reason which Hegel attempted 

 to elaborate was not that of ordinary logic, of the 

 formal logic of the rationalist, or the inductive logic 

 of the empirical school ; it was, as it were, a higher 

 reasonableness that Hegel attempted to demonstrate, a 

 rationality which embraces not only formal and exact 

 ways of thinking but also the higher trains of poetical, 

 religious, and metaphysical thought, what had before 

 him been distinguished from the other under various 

 names, such as the Transcendental (Kant), Intel- 

 lectual Intuition (Fichte and Schelling), or Eeligious 

 Faith (Jacobi and Fries). In the sequel, however, 

 it became clear that these higher forms of thought 

 cannot be fused into one common logic with the 

 precepts of exact and empirical thought. As the 

 latter were more closely investigated and better under- 

 stood it became evident that there exists a radical 

 difference in the manner in which science on the one 

 side, art, ethics, and religion on the other, deal with 

 their subject; the principal difference being that 

 science depends upon definition of detail, and that this 

 inevitably leads to abstraction, to the elaboration of an 

 artificial system of knowledge which only partially and 

 transiently corresponds to that which is actual and 

 real : it leads to a mosaic of thought, to a mechanical 

 aggregate, not to a comprehensive and synoptic view of 

 a living totality. It never attains to a view of the 

 Whole, still less to that of the inherent and essential 



