Mere Goodness Can Achieve Little Against The

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

Beauty And Art Pervade All The Business Of Life Like A Kindly Genius, Brightly Adorning Our Surroundings Whether Interior Or Exterior, Mitigating The Seriousness Of Existence And The Complexities Of The Real Life, Extinguishing Idleness In An Entertaining Fashion, And, Where There Is Nothing Good To Be Achieved, Filling The Place Of Vice Better Than Vice Itself.

For Us, Mind Has Nature For Its Premise, Being Nature's Truth And For That Reason Its Absolute Prius. In This Truth Nature Has Vanished, And Mind Has Resulted As The Idea Arrived At Being-for-itself, The Object Of Which, As Well As The Subject, Is The Concept. This Identity Is Absolute Negativity, For Whereas In Nature The Concept Has Its Perfect External Objectivity, This Its Alienation Has Been Superseded, And In This Alienation The Concept Has Become Identical With Itself. But It Is This Identity Therefore, Only In Being A Return Out Of Nature.

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational. On This Conviction The Plain Man Like The Philosopher Takes His Stand,and From It Philosophy Starts In Its Study Of The Universe Of Mind As Well As The Universe Of Nature.

When Philosophy With Its Abstractions Paints Grey In Grey, The Freshness And Life Of Youth Has Gone, The Reconciliation Is Not A Reconciliation In The Actual, But In The Ideal World.