There were various signssigns intelligible at least to a keenly intuitive soulthat the room was occupied, yet so far as human beings were concerned, it was empty, utterly empty.

Schopenhauer, in his doctrine of Will and Idea, in his vigorously intuitive and highly fanciful view of nature and art, and, in general, in his aesthetical mode of philosophizing, with its glad escape from the fetters of method, has so much in common with Schelling that many unhesitatingly treat his system as an offshoot of the Philosophy of Nature.