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SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT. 497 return to itself again. Only the man who once has been ia a foreign land knows his home aright. The relation of natural objects to one another and their action upon one another is an external one : they are gov- erned by mechanical necessity, and the contingency of influences from without arrests and disturbs their develop- ment, so that while reason is everywhere discernible in nature, it is not reason alone ; and much that is illogical, contrary to purpose, lawless, painful, and unhealthy, points to the fact that the essence of nature consists in externality. This inadequacy in the realization of the Idea, however, is gradually removed by development, until, in " life," the way is prepared for the birth of spirit. As Hegel in his philosophy of nature — which falls into three parts, mechanics, physics, and organics — follows Schelling pretty closely, and, moreover, does not show his power, it does not seem necessary to dwell longer upon it In the next section, also, in view of the fact that its models, the constructive psychologies of Fichte and Schelling, have already been discussed in detail, a statement of the divi- sions and connections must suffice. (c) The Doctrine of Subjective Spirit makes freedom (being with or in self) the essence and destination of spirit, and shows how spirit realizes this predisposition in increasing independence of nature. The subject of anthro- pology is spirit as the (natural, sensitive, and actual) " soul " of a body ; here are discussed the distinctions of race, nation, sex, age, sleeping and waking, disposition and tem- perament, together with talents and mental diseases, in short, whatever belongs to spirit in its union with a body. Phenomenology is the science of the "ego," i.e., of spirit, Th so far as it opposes itself to nature as the non-ego, and passes through the stages of (mere) consciousness, self-consciousness, and (the synthesis of the two) reason. Psychology (better pneumatology) considers "spirit" in its reconciliation with objectivity under the following divi- sions: Theoretical Intelligence as intuition (sensation, atten- tion, intuition), as representation (passive memory, phan- tasy, memory), and (as conceiving, judging, reasoning) thought ; Practical Intelligence as feeling, impulse (passion