New-York daily tribune., 1845-03-27
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10 daily bread HIS thinking Is not the spiritual
pastime Of an acute mind, but sincere and solid
labor Tor truth HIS philosophy is as much that OF
a man Of character as Of man OF genius. While
ScheIling philosophical ike an inspired artist,
sending up, like rockets, his ingenious thoughts,
Hegel viewed thought as a dutv, and under this
yoke labored night and day, examining ali the
branches of science to bring honey for his hive.
1t is very natural that such should have ha-
ted the IRONY OF Schlegel, for the Of character
hates both the Ighincss Of uind tha; prostitutes
itself, and the egotsIn Of genius. After that OF
Fichte, philosophy Is so heroic as that OF He
gel. il is above all in hi. Phenomenoogy that he
shows himself Man There he scourges without
mercy the sweetnesses OF dissimulation, the con-
ventlonal laws OF the heart, and the set-love OF
"beautiful souls'' The sacrifice OF the empire
Me is great sacrifice ii is indeed man who
can face this moral suicide. This death OF the
empire Me conducts directly to the idea! life of
soul. Most philosophers, before Eesel, have re-
coiled from their own work as they grew older
they fed from the ba,tle-felds which had witness
ed their victories IN youth. terror OF the nniEe
has seized them. and ,liey have bent the head,
once SO proud, before the cross OF Golgoiha. He
gel, upright and ndomltdble remained faithful 10
ms system in old age IN youth, faithful even 10
the tomb This constancy is not only the result OF
science but OF character. Modern philosophers
have for the mos, part, been only professors; He
GEL in that resembling the ancients belongs TO the
small number of great men with whom thought
and action are in perfect harmony. Add TO this
rare phllosophic honesty, not recolllng from his
own consequences, eyadng no questions, but meet
ing them face to face, and examining them logical
ly, without any dupciiy.
Destined to the theological career, Hegel entered
the Institute at Tubingen, which, with It's cloistral
arrangements, is too little known abroad. If ex-
tcrnal life was shackled, intellectual entirely
free.
Swdbian science is peculiarly theological, and
this IS consequence of the energetic studies OF
the cloister. The laws OF the seminary were
more than ever severe in the time oil Hegel.-
Thence the intimacy and spiritual contact betwiXt
individuals, different in character thence that re-
treat from the world in which the mind, reduced
to study, digs for itself so deep channel thence
that want Of social education, that rigidity OF mo
rails and manners. The traces OF this education
were visible even in the old age OF HcSel. Almost
nuIllty in the social world he retired 10 his study
when the spirit was stirred. He could not change
the gold Of his thought into current coin.
That aspect OF outward nature, under which
Hege passed his youth, has not been without IN
huence upon his education. The country of Tu-
bingen is one of the most characerstlcally marked
in all Germany. The environs Of the Neckar, the
view OF the Alps, and the vast fiowery PLAIN, never
fail 10 make profound impression on the heart OF
young man. Hegel, Schellins and Holderlin
were at the institute of Tubinsen at the same
time, and, with all three, the contemplation oi Ma
ture plays an important part. The language of
Hegel above all is purely emplatlve, even on
the most abstract subjects. Hegcl has worked
great deal by night. The Seminary occupies
point of view which produces magical elect,
when the country is seen by a fine moonlight AT
the foot OF the cloister flows the Neckar, With It's
mystic murmurs, which seem as II II bore along
in It's waves an eternal secret II dared not betray;
the sound of clocks and bells IS heard from all the
villages round about 10 a great distance, on the
horizon is discerned the crown oi the blue Alps,
in the midst is the PLAIN enamclled with flowers
and fruit trees. The landscape has melancholy
air it seems like garden OF roses in tae midst OF
a cemetery lIegel certainly saw all this when
he wrote his Phcnomenolcsy. This mysterious
aspect of nature combines we'll with The character
stic traits of the people of Wurlembers. Severe
in lis Professionalism il swarms with sects, mystl-
cal, theological, religious In each peasant OF old
Swabn, who reads his Bible, YOU find something
of the Jacob Bchmen. This marks the difference
between the Gnostc and Theosophlc philosophers,
such as Hegel and Schelling, from the philosophers
of the North such as Kant, Fichte and Herbert -
While Herbart points out the abyss winch separa-
rate philosophy from theology, Hesel and Schel-
ling create the philosophy of religions. Abso-
lutte reason DESTROYS the barrier between the divine
being and the human In Aesel nature had united
what she usually separates, analytic reason, and
synthetic contemplation. Hegel
studied Aristotle in an old worm-caten cory, While
Schelling studied the Gnostlcs. Ii may thus be
seen that their several tendencies were manifest
in their earliest studies.
When Hesel entered the Seminary IN l1SS,
was in It's flower The most celebrated UNIVERSE
ties Of Germany recruited there for professors of
Theology, Storr, Plank, Flat, Raunlus, Siaudln;
Splitter, the historian, Reas, librarian, Comfy,
phiologist, Warm, astronomer, Bardili, phlioso-
pher, and Reinhard, who died peer OF France,
had been there. Several of these were afterward
the ornament OF Inc georgia Augusta VI pot'i"-
gen. There were five classes or grades IN the
seminary. In the same class with Hcgei were the
,heoogian Benzel the astronomer olofi, the hlsto-
rian Pis,er. the mathematician Hauber, the poet
Neufier, the philosophers Schelling and Rictha-
mer, asd the friend Of Hegel, the unhappy Holder
lin. Hesel and Hoderlin, whatever scientific dis
,incticns separated them were united by their love
for Greece II the heart OF HoldcIlin uttered cries
OF iov, when the image of Greece rose before HIM,
while he dreamed of the poplars Of llyssus, the
momonton of Sunium, the ravlnes OF Tayge,us.
Hegcl on his side became all glowing when he
spoke Of her constitution, her liberty and her a.,s
No one has spoken better of 'Antgone, he has
given new life TO Aristotle and the Greek tragedy,
and her institutions have been before his mind as
he wrote OF eqaiy.
They have few souvenirs OF Hegel at the con-
vent: they do not know which his chamber was, but
only that, at schellinss desire, he lived with him
for some time Schslling was the only one who