Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

trivialities. In its form, one could recognize the mere manner original: "Manier"; refers to an affected or superficial style of writing of a deliberate, methodical, and easily acquired wit original: "Witz"; in the 19th-century sense, this refers to the intellectual ingenuity of finding clever but superficial connections between unrelated things consisting of baroque connections and a forced eccentricity. Beneath a mask of gravity, this style practiced a deception against both itself and the public.

On the other hand, we have seen shallowness and a lack of thought attempt to brand itself as a "clever" skepticism and a "reason-modest" criticism The author is likely targeting followers of Kant or Schulze who used "critique" as an excuse to limit human knowledge to the surface of things. As these thinkers grew emptier of actual ideas, their arrogance and vanity increased in equal measure.

These two intellectual trends have for a long time mimicked German seriousness. They have exhausted the deeper philosophical need original: "Bedürfniß"; refers to the inherent human drive to understand the fundamental nature of reality of the spirit and have resulted in such indifference—and even contempt—toward the science original: "Wissenschaft"; here meaning a systematic, rigorous body of knowledge, not merely the natural sciences of philosophy, that now even a self-styled...