“…Fechner's nature combined two contradictory elements. On the one hand, he was a romantic idealist, given to wide-ranging speculative thinking, under the influence of the nature philosophy of Oken (1809) and the idealism of Fichte (Everett, 1892), Schelling (Robinson, 1976), and Hegel (Stace, 1924(Stace, /1955. On the other hand, he was a careful, painstaking scientist, in the tradition of E. H. Weber and L. H. F. von Helmholtz.…”