History Is Not The Soil

The Life Of God - The Life Which The Mind Apprehends And Enjoys As It Rises To The Absolute Unity Of All Things - May Be Described As A Play Of Love With Itself; But This Idea Sinks To An Edifying Truism, Or Even To A Platitude, When It Does Not Embrace In It The Earnestness, The Pain, The Patience, And Labor, Involved In The Negative Aspect Of Things.

Whatever Is Reasonable Is True, And Whatever Is True Is Reasonable

The Substance, The Essence, The Spirit Is Freedom.

In The Case Of Various Kinds Of Knowledge, We Find That What In Former Days Occupied The Energies Of Men Of Mature Mental Ability Sinks To The Level Of Information, Exercises, And Even Pastimes For Children; And In This Educational Progress We Can See The History Of The World's Culture Delineated In Faint Outline.

In History, We Are Concerned With What Has Been And What Is; In Philosophy, However, We Are Concerned Not With What Belongs Exclusively To The Past Or To The Future, But With That Which Is, Both Now And Eternally — In Short, With Reason.