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sciousness that we denominate love, hatred, joy, sor- 

 row, and so forth, in terms of space, we shall know to 

 harmonise them. Though the opposites are opposed 

 to each other, out of their congruence comes that 

 unity which is reality. The process whereby the 

 congruence is effected constitutes development life 

 as we know it. This raising of consciousness to a 

 higher power here designated involution Hegel, 

 with a seeming prescience of its geometrical nature, 

 called " overcoming." 



The objection sometimes urged that the " concrete 

 universal " is not a pure logical concept for the rea- 

 son that it involves a sense element, goes to confirm 

 the hypothesis of its spatial dependence. But the 

 ideal form of reality holds here as in all of our think- 

 ing, inasmuch as the identical process does not admit 

 of coincidence in a figure chosen at random; it re- 

 quires the one at right angles to the plane of being. 

 The Absolute as thus represented is no indifference of 

 subject and object. Here is a logical form which is 

 the form of the real in its integrity. 



In the two processes of evolution and involution as 

 they affect our lives we have all true opposites con- 

 fronting each other, as it were, in phalanxes. The 

 dialectic is our only spiritual hope in the strife of 

 these opposing forces. In such logical doctrine 

 alone do we find a one that is not beyond the many, 

 but that is the many. 



