Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

poured out around it, must dissipate of its own accord. The other phenomenon, however, is more disagreeable, because it reveals exhaustion and powerlessness, and it strives to cover these with an arrogance Dünkel; a conceited self-importance or intellectual vanity that presumes to master the philosophical spirits of all centuries, while failing most of all to recognize its own limitations.

It is therefore all the more gratifying to observe and also to mention how, against both these trends, philosophical interest philosophische Interesse and the earnest love of higher knowledge Erkenntniß; the systematic, conceptual grasp of truth have preserved themselves, impartial and without vanity. Even if this interest sometimes threw itself more into the form of an immediate knowledge unmittelbaren Wissens; direct intuition or awareness that bypasses formal logic and of feeling Gefühl, it nevertheless testifies to the inner, further-reaching impulse of rational insight vernünftiger Einsicht, which alone to the