"Natural History of the Finite Spirit". Hegel on Aristotle's Logic

Hegel says of Aristotelian logic that it is partly an ontology (Categories), partly a special variety of dialectic (Topics), but devoid of that necessary 'speculative' moment that shapes from inside the Aristotelian system and distinguishes it positively from modern metaphysics. Logic is in Aristotle a "natural history of the finite spirit", a "natural history of spiritual forms", that is a timeless description and classification operated by the intellect only. Empiricism, that Hegel denies is the distinctive trait of Aristotelian philosophy, would be however intrinsic to the classic exposition of logic contained in particular in the Analyticals. The defect of Aristotelian logic lies therefore in Hegel’s opinion not so much in its formalism as in the failure to recognize the internal necessity that links these forms. In short, they are treated as finite entities, that is, separated from each other and related only by an external observer, the analytic philosopher.