366 rSYCUOLOGY. 



bv tbe musty academicism of liis Kouigsberg existence. 

 With Hegel it was a raging fever. Terribly, therefore, do 

 the sour grapes which these fathers of philosophy have 

 eaten set our teeth on edge. We have in England and 

 America, however, a contemporary continuation of Hegel- 

 ism from which, fortunately, somewhat simpler deliverances 

 come ; and, imable to find any definite psychology in what 

 Hegel, Kosenkranz, or Erdmann tells us of the Ego, I turn 

 to Caird and Green. 



The great difference, practically, between these authors 

 and Kant is their complete abstraction from the onlooking 

 Ps^^chologist and from the Reality he thinks he knows ; or 

 rather it is the absorption of both of these outlying terms 

 into the proper topic of Psychology, viz., the mental ex- 

 perience of the mind under observation. The Reality 

 coalesces with the connected Manifold, the Psychologist 

 with the Ego, knowing becomes ' connecting,' and there 

 results no longer a finite or criticisable, but an * absolute ' 

 Experience, of which the Object and the Subject are always 

 the same. Our finite ' Thought ' is virtually and potentially 

 this eternal (or rather this ' timeless '), absolute Ego, and 

 only provisionally and speciously the limited thing which 

 it seems prima facie to be. The later ' sections ' of our 

 * Stream,' which come and appropriate the earlier ones, 

 are those earlier ones, just as in substantialism the Soul is 

 throughout all time the same.* This * solipsistic ' cliar- 



* The contrast between the Monism thus reached and our own psycho- 

 logical point of view can be exhibited schematically thus, the terms in 

 squares standing for what, for us, are the ultimate irreducible data of 

 psychological science, and the vincula above it symbolizing the reductions 

 which post-Kantian idealism performs : 



Absolute Self-consciousness 



Reason or 



Experience. 



Transcendental Ego World 



Psychologist Thought 



Thcgh.. Object ^^y'^tS^l'' 



Reality 



Psychologist's Object. 

 These reductions account for the ubiquitousness of the ' psj'chologist's 

 fallacy ' (bk. ii. ch. i. p. 32) in the modern monistic writings. For us it ia 



