/$ Sensation is a gracious gift But were it cramped in station, The prayer to have it cast adrift Would spout from all sensation. $/
Hegel's point of view seems neither to be that of mysticism nor mere absorption.]
[Footnote 216: "Odyssey," XI, vv. 481-91. But this illustration is at least evidence of the high value a Greek attached to life on Earth.]
[Footnote 217: True enough as an analysis of the Christian consciousness; but the difficulty above pointed out remains so far as the writer refers to a future life, which he sometimes appears to do, sometimes not. Conditions are assumed for human personality of which we can form no conception.]
[Footnote 218: He means it is the negation of that which is itself a negation, finite existence. The conclusion is of course, as above suggested, replete with difficulty.]
[Footnote 219: That is, I presume, the positive character of natural conditions; but it may mean its own "affirmative" relation.]
[Footnote 220: _Auf die Innerlichkeit des Geistes._]
[Footnote 221: Reason or Spirit are perhaps preferable.]
[Footnote 222: The German words are _das Innerliche_ and _die Innigkeit._]
[Footnote 223: This is obviously not wholly independent of form.]