" If it is remarkable when a nation has become indifferent to its constitutional
theory, to its national sentiments, its ethical customs and virtues, it is
certainly no less remarkable when a nation loses its metaphysics,
when the spirit which contemplates its own pure essence is no
longer a present reality in the life of the nation."
hegel
hegel
Because of the fixed reality of
natural objects the study of nature compels us to fix the categories
which can no longer be ignored in her, although with complete
inconsistency towards other categories which are also allowed to
remain valid; and such study does not permit the further step of
abstracting from the opposition and indulging in generalities as so
easily happens in the intellectual sphere.