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Hegel mentions Haller's description of eternity, " called by Kant terrifying ", in his Science of Logic.

According to Hegel, Haller realizes that a conception of eternity as infinite progress is " futile and empty ".

In a way, Hegel uses Haller's description of eternity as a foreshadowing of his own conception of the true infinite.

Hegel claims that Haller is aware that: " only by giving up this empty, infinite progression can the genuine infinite itself become present to him.