Thus Hegel's is what we may call a closed system.

History has been progressive, but no path is left open for further advance.

Hegel views this conclusion of development with perfect complacency.

To most minds that are not intoxicated with the Absolute it will seem that, if the present is the final state to which the evolution of Spirit has conducted, the result is singularly inadequate to the gigantic process.

But his system is eminently inhuman.