Philosophy on this account sank into general and well-deserved contempt， such as is for the most part extended to those who assert that they have a monopoly of philosophy. Instead of earnestness of apprehension and circumspection of thought， we find in them a juggling with idle fancies， which pass for deep conceptions， lofty surmises， and even for poetry： and they think they are right in the centre of things when they are only on the surface. Five-and-twenty years ago(28)the case was the same with poetic art； a taste for ingenious conceits took possession of it， and the effusions of its poetic inspiration came forth blindly from itself， shot out as from a pistol. The results were either crazy ravings， or， if they were not ravings， they were prose so dull that it was unworthy of the name of prose. It is just the same in the later philosophies. What is not utterly senseless drivel about the indifference-point and polarity， about oxygen， the holy， the infinite， &c.， is made up of thoughts so trivial that we might well doubt our having correctly apprehended their meaning， in the first place because they are given forth with such arrogant effrontery， and in the second place because we cannot help trusting that what was said was not go trivial as it seems. As in the Philosophy of Nature men forgot the Notion and proceeded in a dead unspiritual course， so here they lose sight of spirit entirely. They have strayed from the right road； for by their principle， Notion and perception are one unity， but in point of fact this unity， this spirit， itself emerges in immediacy， and is therefore in intuitive perception， and not in the Notion.

1. Schelling's philosophische Schriften (Landshut， 1809， Vol. I. Vom Ich als Princip der Philosophie， pp. 1-114)， pp. 3， 4 (first edition， Tübingen， 1795， pp. 4-7).

2. His birthplace is usually stated to have been Leonberg， a short distance from Schorndorf.-[Translators' note.]

3. Lectures of 1816-1817. [Translators' note.]

4. Schelling's philosophische Schriften： Vom Ich als Princip der Philosophie， p. 99 seq. (p. 178seq.).

5. Ibidem， pp. 23， 24 (pp. 38-42).

6. Ibidem， p. 83 (p. 150).

7. Schelling's System des transcendentalen Idealismus， p. 257， not. Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. II. No. 2， p. 92.

8. Lectures of 1805-1806.

9. Schelling： System des transcendentalen Idealismus， pp. 1-7， 17-21.

10. Schelling： System des transcendentalen Idealismus， pp. 24-46， 49-52， 55-58， 63-65.

11. Schelling： System des transcendentalen Idealismus， pp. 69， 70， 72-79.

12. Schelling： System des transcendentalen Idealismus， pp. 85， 86， 89， 98， 442-444.

13. Schelling： System des transcendentalen Idealismus， pp. 471， 472， 475.

14. Schelling： Neue Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. I. Part I. pp. 52， 53.

15. Kritisches Journal der Philosophie， published by Schelling and Hegel， Vol. I. Part I. p. 67；Schelling： Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. II. No. II. Preface， p. xiii.

16. Schelling： Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. II. No. II. § 1， pp. 1， 2； § 4， p. 4； §16-18， pp. 10-12.

17. Ibidem， § 22-24， pp. 13-15； § 37， 38， pp. 22， 23； § 40-42， pp. 25， 26.

18. Schelling： Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. II. No. II. § 25， 26， 28， 30-32， pp. 15-19；§ 44， 46， pp. 27-29.

19. Schelling： Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. II. No. II. § 50， No. 1， § 51， pp. 34-36； §54， p. 40； § 57 and note， pp. 42-44.

20. Schelling： Zeitschrift für spec. Phys.， Vol. II. No. II. § 62-64， pp. 47， 48； § 92， 93， pp. 59， 60； § 67-69， pp. 49， 50； § 95， pp. 64-68； (Nene Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. I. Part II. pp. 92， 93， 98， 117-119； Erster Entwuft eines Systems der Natur-philosophie， p. 297； §76-78， p. 53； § 83 and Appendix， p. 54； § 103， Note， p. 76； § 112， p. 84.

21. Ibidem， § 136， 137， pp. 109， 110； § 141， Appendix I. p. 112.

22. Schelling： Neue Zeitschrift für speculative Physik， Vol. I. Part I. pp. 1-77； Part II. pp. 1-38.

23. Schelling： Ibidem， Vol. I. Part II. p. 39.

24. Schelling： Ibidem， Vol. I. Part II. pp. 39-41.

25. Schelling， Ibidem， Vol. I. Part II. pp. 41-50.

26. Schelling： Denkmal der Schrift von den g？ttlichen Dingen， pp. 94， 85， 86 (Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit in den Philosophischen Schriften， Vol.

I. Landshut， 1809， p. 429)， 89-93.

27. Cf. Schelling's Erster Entwurf der Natur-philosophie， p. 297.

28. From the lectures of 1805-1806.

Section Three： Recent German Philosophy E. Final Result.