“ Lectures on the Philosophy of Law (1873) ; Burns in Drama (1878) ; Text-Book to Kant (1881) ; Philosophy in the Poets; Darwinianism; Workmen and Work (1894) ; What IS Thought? Or the Problem of Philosophy; By Way of a Conclusion So Far (1900) ; The Categories (1903) . Of these the most important is The Secret of Hegel, which is admitted, both in England and in Germany, to be among the most scholarly and valuable contributions to Hegelian doctrine and to modern philosophy in general. ”

“ In these two works Dr Stirling endeavoured to establish an intimate connexion between Kant and Hegel, and even went so far as to maintain that Hegel's doctrine is merely the elucidation and crystallization of the Kantian system. ”