Time  is  therefore  the  form  by  means  of  which  self- conscious-
ness becomes  possible  for  the  individual  will,  which  origin-
ally and  in  iteelf  Is  without  knowledge.  In  it  the  nature  of
the  will,  which  in  itself  is  simple  and  identical,  appears
drawn  out  into  a  course  of  life.'"  Also,  "Time,  spate,  and
causalty  are  that  arrangement  of  intellect  by  virtae  of  which.
the  one  being  of  each  kind  which  alone  really  is,  manifests  to-
ns a  multiplicity  of  similar  beings,  constantly  appearing  and]
disappearing  in  endless  succession."


»  Gesch.  d.  PhllcM.  J318.    Tr.  p.  567.
•  World  u  Will  uid  Idea.    Tr.  HalduK  and  Kemp.  (Bostoo,  1888}
A'ol.  U,p.  33.
•  p.  aw.
•  p.  SM.
THE  PSTCHOLOGT  OF  TIHB.
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la  a  more  empirical  mood  he  declares  ''Succession  is  the
whole  nature  of  time"  ;^  this  is  adverse  to  the  side  of  the
great  dehate  which  Fichte  took  in  declaring  time  to  be  not
"  Baccession*'  but  a  "  present  thought."

Chk.  Hermann  Weisse  and  I.  H.  Fichte  (half-Hegi^lianH)
criticised  their  master  for  not  treating^  space  and  time  as  any
of  the  other  categories  ol  knowledge  or  "forms  ot  reality,"
and  in  his  Ix)gt<*  rather  than  in  his  Philosophy  of  Nature.'
Fichte  developed  space  and  time  from  certain  *^  feelings  of
dwroHon  and  extension  which  are  inseparable  from  self -con*
gcioitsness,  and  which  feelings  have  their  basi^t  in  the  itouVs
oum  obJectivK  nature^*  From  a  similar  standpoint,  £.  H.
