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Spirit is freedom and self-consciousness acting to realize its own potentiality.
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The real is the rational,
and the rational is the real ;
Idea or Reason is the formative principle of all reality.
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The goal of history is the liberation of Spirit from its confinement in Nature in order that Spirit might be reunited with its essence as Idea.
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The Spirit could not realize its reunion with Idea were it not for the force of Will,
as derived from human passions.
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The individual as individual is unimportant ;
only the historically decisive actor,the hero,
makes a significant difference in history ;
but whether a man be a conventional citizen,a courageous person,a hero,or a victim,
he is nothing but the Spirit's instrument.
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The embodiment of the Spirit's freedom is the State ;
the State is the concrete unity of freedom and passion.
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