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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: of ignorance and 'logical impurity': he who is within is omniscient, or at
least has all the elements of knowledge under his hand.
Hegelianism may be said to be a transcendental defence of the world as it
is. There is no room for aspiration and no need of any: 'What is actual
is rational, what is rational is actual.' But a good man will not readily
acquiesce in this aphorism. He knows of course that all things proceed
according to law whether for good or evil. But when he sees the misery and
ignorance of mankind he is convinced that without any interruption of the
uniformity of nature the condition of the world may be indefinitely
improved by human effort. There is also an adaptation of persons to times
and countries, but this is very far from being the fulfilment of their
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