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1908 Oct 28
Logic
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intellect as well could be. The former seized the general point
of view of logic better than almost any other German, and also
appreciated the importance of mathematical relations in mental
science, but had the most wooden incapacity for grasping the subtler
concepts, especially those of infinity and continuity. Hegel, on the
contrary, never missed the idea of continuity, and had a wonderful
flair for detecting one concept as an ingredient of another, yet
seldom succeeded in had a more wonderful incapacity for putting the ingredients together in the right,
an incapacity aggravated by the strength of his prepossessions
as to the way in which they must be connected. Both these
minds, opposed as were their tendencies had the false notion that
motion involved a violation of the principle of contradiction.
They did not see that their difficulties were not peculiar to