ABSTRACT
The over-soulful people have not wanted to deny science or deprive themselves of its benefits, but neither have they wanted to commit themselves to its methods of acquiring knowledge, and to the limitations of knowledge which those methods imply. They have wanted to use the faculty of ideation not only in order to change real things in an ideal direction, but also in order to make themselves comfortable among things-as-they-are by thinking up ideal ways of conceiving them. Marx learned the system in his youth, and fervently believed it all. He believed it, of course, with a “left-ward” tendency, a tendency to emphasize the temporal and historic character of the divine evolution, and the importance of each forward step in the process, each “negation” of the status quo—and particularly the one which he felt to be about due in his own time.
