Note 215 — Chapter III
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
But surely in a sense personal life, if only limited to Earth's existence, may be, I do not say necessarily is, all the more valuable. This is an important aspect of the matter which is not here adequately answered, and it suggests a real grievance against the extravagant follies of a certain type of Christendom. The present feeling of the wisest minds of our own time will be inclined to regard a good deal of Hegel's remarks here as insufficient or lacking directness. One recalls those significant lines of a great writer but recently taken from us:
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.