…actual events have shattered the basis on which speculative metaphysical thought could be reconciled with experience

The earthquake of Lisbon sufficed to cure Voltaire of the theodicy of Leibniz, and the visible disaster of the first nature was insignificant in comparison with the second, social one, which defies human imagination as it distills a real hell from human evil…actual events have shattered the basis on which speculative metaphysical thought could be reconciled with experience. (361-362)

Represented in the inmost cell of thought is that which is unlike thought

Represented in the inmost cell of thought is that which is unlike thought. The smallest intra-mundane traits would be of relevance to the absolute, for the micrological view cracks the shells of what, measured by the subsuming cover concept, is helplessly isolated and explodes its identity, the delusion that it is but a specimen. There is solidarity between such thinking and metaphysics at the time of its fall. (406)