PROLEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY AND _ESPECIALLY OF HIS LOGIC_ BY WILLIAM WALLACE, M.A., LL.D. FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE AND WHYTE'S PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1894 IN REMEMBRANCE OF B. JOWETT LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND MASTER OF BALLIOL COLLEGE OXFORD PREFACE The present volume of Prolegomena completes the second edition of my LOGIC OF HEGEL which originally appeared in 1874. The translation, which was issued as a separate volume in the autumn of 1892, had been subjected to revision throughout: such faults as I could detect had been amended, and many changes made in the form of expression with the hope of rendering the interpretation clearer and more adequate. But, with a subject so abstruse and complicated as Hegel's Logic, and a style so abrupt and condensed as that adopted in his _Encyclopaedia_, a satisfactory translation can hardly fall within the range of possibilities. Only the enthusiasm of youth could have thrown itself upon such an enterprise; and later years have but to do what they may to fulfil the obligations of a task whose difficulties have come to seem nearly insuperable. The translation volume was introduced by a sketch of the growth of the _Encyclopaedia_ through the three editions published in its author's lifetime: and an appendix of notes supplied some literary and historical elucidations of the text, with quotations bearing on the philosophical development between Kant and Hegel.