“ Pragmatical (didactic) reflections, though in their nature decidedly abstract, are truly and indefeasibly of the Present, and quicken the annals of the dead Past with the life of to-day. Whether, indeed, such reflections are truly interesting and enlivening, depends on the writer’s own spirit. ”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation
Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Source | Lectures on the Philosophy of History |
Topic | past spirit |
Date | 1837 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by J. Sibree |
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