[Footnote 10: See e. g. Professor Michael Fosters article on Physiology in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica._] [Footnote 11: Schelling, iii. 352, 386.] [Footnote 12: Ibid. iii. 427.] [Footnote 13: Schelling, iii. 397.] [Footnote 14: Schelling, iii. 600.] [Footnote 15: Ibid. iii. 603.] [Footnote 16: Schelling, iii. 628.] CHAPTER XIV. TRANSITION TO HEGEL. Thus far Schelling (aetat. 25) had gone in 1800. Two sides of philosophy had been alternately presented as complementary to each other; and now the task lay before him to publish the System itself which formed the basis of those complementary views. To that task Schelling set himself in 1801 (in his Journal for Speculative Physics): but the _Darstellung meines Systems_ remained a torso. The Absolute was abruptly 'shot from the pistol': but little followed save a restatement in new terms of the Philosophy of Nature. Meanwhile Hegel, who had inherited some little means by his father's death, began to think that the hour had struck for his entrance into the literary and philosophical arena, and wrote in the end of 1800 to Schelling asking his aid in finding a suitable place and desirable surroundings from which to launch himself into action. What answer or advice he received is unknown: at any rate in the early days of 1801 he took up his quarters at Jena, and in the autumn he gave his first lectures at the University. Gossip suggested that Schelling, left alone (since Fichte's departure) to sustain the onset of respectability and orthodoxy upon the extravagances of the new Transcendentalism, had summoned his countryman and old friend to bear a part in the fray. And the rumour seemed to receive corroboration. The two friends issued conjointly a _Critical Journal of Philosophy,_ which ran through two years. So closely were the two editors associated that in one article it seems as if the younger had supplied his more fluent pen to expound the ideas of his senior.