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THE aim of this book is praiseworthy in the highest degree. Unfortunately it cannot be said to achieve success. The author tells us that he has already published a translation of the first two volumes of Hegel's “Wissenschaft der Logik,” but it had failed to arouse interest. He has therefore conceived the idea, not of paraphrasing it literally, but of presenting what he considers and accepts as its essential meaning in his own words. Where he seems to us to fail is in not understanding that Hegel, so far as he makes appeal to present students, does so in the spirit of his thought and not in the now antiquated form of its expression.
Pure Thought and the Riddle of the Universe.
F.
Sedlák
By. Vol. 1, Creation of Heaven and Earth. Pp. xv + 375. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., n.d.) 18s. net.
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Pure Thought and the Riddle of the Universe . Nature 108, 9 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108009c0
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