Modern Review September 1920

of the u1.1 He refers to the warm manner in which : rgcl hails all such categories as the infinite and oaks of the melancholy of the thought. [...] of litude " to "such expressions as that unreality nth the death of the body is the birth of the. irit' ' and concludes "that we have but to l'ollect all this to feel convinced of the perfect 1 ty of Hegel to the hope of immortality." it the passages on which Stirling relics can rdly be said to support his conclusion. [...] There is no doubt that he regards as he must the universal mind independently of which nothing can exist as immortal ; but on the whole the trend of his theory is I am inclined to think rather against the doctrine of the immortality of the finite self. [...] In combating the falsehood that the nation is an aggregate of idividuals we must not fall into the equally ser()as mistake of supposing that the national hfe is realised anywhere except in the widened and dcepcned self-consciousness of the citizen. [...] "is the content of the self whit: secure in the Absolute." But if the princip the conservation of values has any mcaningj cannot be that the thing of highest value - personality of man is not conserved.