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5th, Critical severity and sense of fact;
6th, Systematic procedure;
7th, Energy, diligence, persistency, and exclusive devotion to philosophy.
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Hegel, in some respects the greatest philosopher
that ever lived, had a somewhat juster notion of this complication,
though an inadequate notion, too. For if he had seen what the state of the case
was, he would not have attempted in one lifetime
to cover the vast field that he attempted to clear.
But Hegel was lamentably deficient
in that 5th requisite of critical severity
and sense of fact. He brought out the
three elements much more clearly. But
the element of Secondness, of hard fact, is
not accorded its due place in his system;
and in a lesser degree the same is true of
Firstness. After Hegel wrote, there came
fifty years that were remarkably fruitful
in all the means for attaining that 5th requisite.

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