Preface.

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That a system which completely changes—and even reverses—the view of things prevailing not only in everyday life but even in most branches of knowledge German: Wissenschaften; in this era, the term encompassed all systematic academic disciplines, including the humanities and sciences, should encounter persistent opposition—even when its principles German: Principien; the foundational laws or axioms of a theory are proven with the utmost rigor—and even from those who are capable of feeling the clarity German: Evidenz; referring to a self-evident or intuitive certainty of its proofs or truly understanding them, can [find its...] The sentence is incomplete as it continues on the following page.