Who is Georg Hegel from Writings, 1902-1910 and what is their importance?

According to William James, Hegel does more to solidify idealistic pantheism than all other influences. Hegel's vision contains two important elements, one being that reason is all inclusive and the other is that all things are dialectic. Dialectic is described as meaning that the truth of any one thing is larger than the thing itself. The fullness of life can be construed to thought only by recognizing that every object which our thought may propose to itself involves the notion of some other object which seems at first to negate the first one.