Excerpt from Rational Psychology, or the Subjective Idea and Objective Law of All Intelligence The complaint of obscurity from peculiarity of style and terms arises from the nature of the Speculation, and nothing but more familiarity with this field of thinking can make any presentation by language to be perspicuous. N 0 words will put the thoughts over into the empty and passive mind, but the mind must come to the language with some previous preparation in its habits of thinking to enable it to discern and take the thought there contained. To the familiar mind the work is not open to the criticism of obscurity, either from style or terminology. The vague reproaches in the charges of transcendentalism and German Speculation need no other reply than the emphatic affirmation that whatever danger or error there may be in transcendentalism or Ger manism, these are not to be overcome by any timid ignoring or any valorous denouncing of them. They are to be put down in no other manner than by fairly meeting and fully refuting or correcting them in their own methods. The work has done more than was anticipated for it in awaking and directing thought, and it is given in this re vised form from the conviction that its use is still needed to the same ends, and especially as a text or reference book in the higher philosophical instruction of our colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.