Readers of the following pages, accustomed to Hegel s Himalayan severity and ruggedness of style and to the arid and difficult treatment of the Hegelian philosophy, so long in vogue, will probably be surprised at the profound yet pellucid clarity of Croce s thought. Hegel has at last found a critic and interpreter equal to the task, in the thinker who has already given us the Philosophy of the Spirit. Croce has passed beyond and therefore been able to look back ...
