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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.

In The Case Of All Other Sciences, Arts, Skills, And Crafts, Everyone Is Convinced That A Complex And Laborious Programme Of Learning And Practice Is Necessary For Competence. Yet When It Comes To Philosophy, There Seems To Be A Currently Prevailing Prejudice To The Effect That, Although Not Everyone Who Has Eyes And Fingers, And Is Given Leather And Last, Is At Once In A Position To Make Shoes, Everyone Nevertheless Immediately Understands How To Philosophize.

The People Are That Part Of The State That Does Not Know What It Wants.

The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth.

Consequently, The Sensuous Aspect Of Art Is Related Only To The Two Theoretical Sensesof Sight And Hearing, While Smell, Taste, And Touch Remain Excluded.