Those impressed by George Steiner's remark on Hegel in the previous post may consult…
(The Christian Examiner. Volume LXXX. New Series, Volume I. January, March, May, 1866.
New York: James Miller, Publisher, 522, Broadway. Boston: Walker, Fuller, & Co.
No. CCLIV, Art. IV.– THE SECRET OF HEGEL.
By C. C. Everett, pp. 196-207.
A review of…
The Secret of Hegel, being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter.
By James Hutchinson Sterling. In two volumes.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 1865. 8vo, 2 vols.)
On Hegel, from the review—
"He starts not from the beginning, but from the heart, of the world.
There never was a time when this pure Being— which, in its
undivided absoluteness, is indistinguishable from nothing;
as pure, unbroken light is indistinguishable from darkness—
was by itself alone; but this absolute Being is yet the foundation
and the groundwork of whatever is."
For more on Hegel's logic, see Marxists.org.
See also Steiner on chess and Lenin in The New Yorker
(September 7, 1968, page 133).
