Not many know Dewey contributed a book to The International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Theory of Valuation, 1939) & was on the Advisory Committee. Actually, the Committee is a remarkable list of people. These names together may surprise some committed to certain historiographic narratives.

"Spirit is...the movement that is...the transformation of...substance into subject, of the object of consciousness into the object of self-consciousness... This transformation is the circle returning back into itself, which presupposes its beginning and reaches its beginning only at the end."

Finished reading this today, the latest in some reading I've been doing about the history of science and the role played by what we would now think of as occult, mystical, or magical ideas in the progress of science in the 14th to 17th centuries.

Got this in a fortune cookie a while back. Sums up my philosophical project rather well (if in French).