And so it comes about that Logic has to be learned at first, as something which is perhaps understood and seen into, but of which the compass, the depth, and further import are in the earliest stages unperceived. It is only after a deeper study of the other sciences that logical theory rises before the mind of the student into a universal, which is not merely abstract, but embraces within it the variety of particulars.--The same moral truth on the lips of a youth, who understands it quite correctly, does not possess the significance or the burden of meaning which it has in the mind of the veteran, in whom the experience of a lifetime has made it express the whole force of its import. In the same way, Logic is not appreciated at its right value until it has grown to be the result of scientific experience. It is then seen to be the universal truth,--not a special study beside other matters and other realities, but the essence of all these other facts together.[12] [Footnote 1: E. g. 'formal' in _Hamlet_, iv. 5. 215; 'informal' in _Measure for Measure,_ v. 236.] [Footnote 2: _Encycl._ § 574 (_Philosophy of Mind,_ p. 196).] [Footnote 3: _Encycl._ § 377.] [Footnote 4: _Logic_, vol. ii. p. 30.] [Footnote 5: The criticisms of A. Trendelenburg, in his _Logische Untersuchungen,_ rest on such assumptions. 'Trendelenburg,' says Hartmann, 'means low-water mark in German philosophy.'] [Footnote 6: See above all Bradley's _Principles of Logic_, and Bosanquet's _Logic_, &c.] [Footnote 7: 'Das Wahre ist der bacchantische Taumel, an dem kein Glied nicht trunken ist; und weil jedes, indem es sich absondert, ebenso unmittelbar sich auflöst,--ist es ebenso die durchsichtige und einfache Ruhe.' _Phenom. des Geistes,_ p 35.] [Footnote 8: Prantl, _Geschichte der Logik,_ i. 87.] [Footnote 9: _Wissenschaft der Logik_, i. p. 39.] [Footnote 10: See _Encyclop._ § 549 _(Philosophy of Mind_, pp. 148 seqq.). It is, of course, quite another question--to be answered by intelligent research--how far in particular cases Hegel has accurately studied a thinker, and faithfully interpreted him. Some of his critics in this line appear to mistake philology--which is a highly important authority in its own field--for philosophy: and will no doubt go on doing so.] [Footnote 11: Hegel's _Werke_, iii., 33.] [Footnote 12: _Wissenschaft der Logik_, i. p. 43.] CHAPTER XXVII. ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE: OR THE CATEGORIES.