 The Preface to the second volume, on Mythical Thought (1925), invokes Hegel in the same vein, while also indicating Cassirer’s remaining fundamental disagreement with him. For Hegel [Hegel (GW 9, 23)]: “Science for its part demands that self-consciousness raise itself into this ether, in order that it may live with and for science. Conversely, the individual has the right to demand that science shall at least provide him with a ladder by which to reach to this height, and show it to him in himself. This right is based on the absolute independence which he knows himself to possess in every form of knowledge; for in each form, whether it be recognized by science or not, and regardless of what its content may be, it is absolute form – that is, it is the immediate certainty of itself, and, if this term be preferred, it is therefore absolute being.”