Note Footnote 3: — Chapter IV
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A curious confirmation of this law of our thinking has been pointed out by Mr. Carl Abel.3 In Egyptian hieroglyphics, the oldest extant language, we find, he says, a large number of symbols with two meanings, the one the exact opposite of the other. Thus the same symbol represents strong and weak; above—below; with—without; for—against. This is what the Hegelians mean by the reconciliation of antagonisms in higher unities. They do not mean that black is white, but only that black and white have something in common—they are both colours.