Excerpt from The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 5: July, 1871 For the intellect in the service of the will - that is, in its practical nse - there exist only individual things; for the intellect which devotes itself to arts and sciences - that is, which is active for itself - there are only generalities, whole kinds, species, orders, ideas of things, since even the plastic artist intends to represent in the individual only the idea that is, the genus. This rests upon the fact, that the will im mediately is only directed upon individual things: they are its proper obj ects; for only those have an empirical reality. Ideas, species, orders, on the contrary, can only very indi rectly become its obj ects. Therefore the inexperienced man has no comprehension of general truths; but the genius over looks and neglects the individual; the enforced occupation with single things as such, as it forms the subject-matter of practical life, is to him nothing but a burdensome socage. 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.