ABSTRACT
James Murdock has the honesty to admit defeat and to content himself with reporting the opinions of others, chiefly Krug —himself a reporter of opinions mainly hostile to the Hegelian philosophy. Dr. Frederick A. Rauch’s familiarity with German philosophy and particularly with Hegel, qualified him in a special degree to carry the life and spirit of German thought into America, and, as he himself expressed it, “to unite German and American mental philosophy”. American students heard of Hegel in the histories of philosophy. What is certain is that the Journal stimulated a wide interest in German philosophy and literature, and to a large extent provided the material for the series of more systematic treatises which in the ’eighties and ’nineties rivalled the similar series in England. It was just such work which was necessary to naturalize Hegel on the new soil.
