This is not the place--in a philological chapter--to discuss the issues involved in the announcement that the truth awaits us ready to hand[17] 'in all genuine consciousness, in all religions and philosophies.' Yet one remark may be offered against hasty interpretations of a 'speculative' identity. If there is a double edge to the proposition that the actual is the reasonable, there is no less caution necessary in approaching and studying from both sides the far-reaching import of that equation to which Joannes Scotus Erigena gave expression ten centuries ago: '_Non alia est philosophia, i.e. sapientiae studium, et alia religio. Quid est aliud de philosophia tractare nisi verae religionis regulas exponere?_' [1] _Christian Märklin,_ cap. 3. [2] Hegel's _Briefe,_ i. 141. [3] _Ibid._ i. 172. [4] Hegel's _Briefe,_ i. 138. [5] _Ibid._ i. 339. [6] Hegel's _Briefe,_ i. 328. [7] _Ibid._ i. 273. [8] _Ibid._ i. 373. [9] Hegel's _Briefe,_ ii. 204. [10] _Ibid._ ii. 230. [11] Jacobi's _Werke,_ iv. A, p. 63. [12] Hegel's _Briefe,_ ii. 54. [13] _Ibid._ ii. 276. [14] Hegel's _Briefe,_ i. 13. [15] Hölderlin's _Leben_ (Litzmann), p. 183. [16] _Verm. Sehr._ ii. 144. [17] Hegel's _Briefe,_ ii. 80. * * * * * _The following Errata in the Edition of the Logic as given in the Collected Works (Vol. VI.) are corrected in the translation. The references in brackets are to the_ German text. Page 95, line 1. Und Objektivität has dropped out after der Subjektivität. [VI. 98, l. 10 from bottom.] P. 97, l. 2. The 2nd ed. reads (die Gedanken) nicht in Solchem, instead of nicht als in Solchem (3rd ed.). [VI. p. 100, l. 3 from bottom.] P. 169, l. 13 from bottom. Instead of the reading of the _Werke_ and of the 3rd ed. read as in ed. II. Also ist dieser Gegenstand nichts. [VI. p. 178, l. 11.] P. 177, l. 3 from bottom. Verstandes; Gegenstandes is a mistake for Verstandes; Gegensatzes, as in edd. II and III. [VI. p. 188, l. 2.] P. 231, l. 19. weiten should be weitern. [VI. p. 251, l. 3 from bottom.] P. 316, l. 15. Dinglichkeit is a misprint for Dingheit, as in Hegel's own editions. [VI. p. 347, l. 1.] P. 352, l. 14 from bottom, for seine Realität read seiner Realität. [VI. p. 385, l. 8.] THE SCIENCE OF LOGIC (_THE FIRST PART OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE_) BY G. W. F. HEGEL THE SCIENCE OF LOGIC CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.