 Appeal to “The Absolute”, however, brings another danger—a threat to the reality of individual finite minds. There is a risk that the individual subject is reduced to a modification of the one Absolute universal mind, and hence eliminated as an independently existing centre of consciousness. This was the principal reason that led Seth to conclude against Hegelianism in his second set of Balfour Lectures, and he identified it as a problem that the other Idealists (notably Caird) failed to avoid.