OF REALITY. 



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essence of the truly Eeal, manifests itself in the actual 

 world of facts and events. In the preface to this work 

 Hegel clearly puts his finger upon the weak points of 

 the philosophy of Schelling or — as Schelling himself 

 tried to understand it — of the philosophy of many of 

 Schelling's followers and admirers : the want of method, 

 the licence with which vague analogies, poetical images, 

 and fanciful apercus had been put in the place of strict 

 definitions and logical analysis. In this he only gave 

 expression to a conviction which must have been that of 

 many leaders of thought at that time, who felt that the 

 wholesome discipline exerted by the writings of Kant 



is perhaps not yet sufficiently 

 recognised abroad may be gathered 

 from the following passage in Win- 

 delband's ' Geschichte der Neueren 

 Philosophie' (vol. ii., 4th ed., p. 

 331). Speaking of the obscurity of 

 Hegel's ' Logic ' he says : " We can 

 only recommend the German reader 

 of to-day to acquire through Kuno 

 Fischer's ' Exposition ' a detailed 

 and clear insight into the wealth 

 which Hegel's mind has woven into 

 the System of the Categories : we 

 possess in it a translation, intellig- 

 ible to the present age, of Hegel's 

 work that greatly excels the mani- 

 fold attempts which before this 

 have already appeared in foreign, 

 especially English literature. It is 

 to be hoped that through it the 

 prejudices under which Hegel's 

 memory has long suffered will be 

 increasingly dissipated." In order 

 not to leave my readers quite in 

 the dark, I may here state that the 

 great difference which separates 

 Neo-Hegelianisra in England from 

 genuine Hegelianism is, in my 

 opinion, to be traced largely to the 

 influence of Lotze, who was the first 

 to attempt in a truly Hegelian 



spirit an exposition of the logical 

 forms of thought or of the cate- 

 gories in connection with tlie con- 

 tent of such thought and with the 

 object with which it is carried on. 

 And this seems also to agree with 

 Windelband's own words {loc. cit. ) : 

 " Only by adhering to the principle 

 [of an epistemological logic] that 

 all forms of thought have meaning 

 only with reference to their object- 

 matter is it possible for Logic to 

 preserve contact with the actual 

 reality of human thinking. Hegel 

 is, next to Aristotle and Kant, — in 

 spite of all the arbitrariness of his 

 constructions, — the greatest logic- 

 ian whom History has known, and 

 he is, together with them, the 

 proof that a truly original and 

 creative treatment of Logic is 

 possible only to such as have 

 gained, through a rich and scientific 

 experience, a comprehensive view of 

 the intellectual work of man." As 

 might have been expected, the Ox- 

 ford School has also brought Hegel 

 into closer connection with the 

 philosophy of Aristotle. This ii 

 eminently characteristic also of 

 Lord Haldane's Lectures. 



