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1909 Oct 29
Logic
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seated. Hegel, on the contrary, with greater deeper
profundity, seizes upon an idea, in which though he misunderstands
it, there is a nucleole of truth, and maintains that
it is the principle of contradiction excluded middle that is in error, "is P" and
"is not P" not being the only alternatives. The result is that
Herbart makes our every-day world to be, at bottom, Nothing,
while Hegel makes the same to be, at bottom, Ens necessarium,
which he calls die absolute Idee.

When a boy reachers the age at which the need of his exercising
a far more vigorous and better planned and organized control
over himself strikes him as urgent, he will reflect, if he has
any capacity for reflection, that considering how often he
has already found himself mistaken, in spite of his never