1. For biographical and historical details see L. D. Easton, Hegel’s First American Followers, The Ohio Hegelians — J. B. Stallo, Peter Kaufmann, Moncure Conway, and August Willich (Athens, Ohio University Press, 1967 ), Chs. I-III presenting the nub of the main theses in this essay, but here those theses are developed further, with details of Stallo’s criticism of Hegel.
2. Cf. Franz Wiedmann, Hegel, trans. J. Neugroshel (New York, Pegasus, 1968 ), pp. 32–33, 36, 44.
3. J. B. Stallo, The General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature (Boston, Crosby and Nichols, 1848), pp. vii-viii. Some sixty pages of this scarce book are reproduced, with original pagination in square brackets, in an appendix to Easton, op. cit.
4. Ibid., p. 43.
5. Ibid. p. 333, 345.