In Hegel, the question assumes a wider scope, and receives a more thorough-going answer. In the _first_ place the question about the Categories is transferred from what we have called the epistemological or psychological, to what Hegel terms the logical, sphere. It is transferred from the Reason subjectively considered as a mere receptive and synthetic human consciousness to the Reason which is in the world and in history,--a Reason, which our Reason, as it were, touches, and so becomes possessed of knowledge. In the _second_ place, the Categories become a vast multitude. The intellectual telescope discovers new stars behind the constellations named in ancient lore. There is no longer, if there ever was, any mystic virtue supposed to inhere in the number twelve: while the triadic arrangement is made radical and everywhere recurs. The modern chemist of thought vastly amplifies the number of its elementary types and factors, and proves that many of the old Categories are neither simple nor indecomposable. _Thirdly_, there is a systematic development or process which links the Categories together, and shows how the most simple, abstract, and inadequate, inevitably lead up to the most complex and adequate. Each term or member in the organism of thought has its place conditioned by all the others: each of them is the germ, or the ripe fruit of another. [Footnote 1: Spinoza, _Eth._ ii. 7-13.] [Footnote 2: _Encyclopaedia_, §§ 415, 420. Consciousness is only as it were the surface of the ocean of mind; and reflects only the lights and shadows in the sky above it.] [Footnote 3: It is not the least of the merits of the exposition in Caird's _Critical Philosophy_ of Immanuel Kant, vol. i. to have brought out this.] CHAPTER X. THE CRITICAL SOLUTION, CONTINUED: KANT.