The Logic of Hegel

The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is translated from the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences by William Wallace. The text says that if it be correct to say that thought makes the distinction between man and the lower animals, then everything human is human for the sole and simple reason that it is due to the operation of thought. The text describes ideas that would put feeling and thought so far apart as to make them opposites, and says that those who make this separation forget meanwhile that only man has the capacity for religion.

A story told in the text has Leibnitz propounding the maxim of Variety, and the cavaliers and ladies of the court, when they walked round the garden, making efforts to discover two leaves indistinguishable from each other. The text says that, as regards the principle of Leibnitz, difference must be understood to mean not an external and indifferent diversity merely, but difference essential. A note says that Grenze (limit or boundary) and Schranke (barrier or check) are distinguished.