The Person Must Give Himself

Genuine Tragedies In The World Are Not Conflicts Between Right And Wrong. They Are Conflicts Between Two Rights.

We Assert Then That Nothing Has Been Accomplished Without Interest On The Part Of The Actors; And — If Interest Be Called Passion, Inasmuch As The Whole Individuality, To The Neglect Of All Other Actual Or Possible Interests And Claims, Is Devoted To An Object With Every Fibre Of Volition, Concentrating All Its Desires And Powers Upon It — We May Affirm Absolutely That Nothing Great In The World Has Been Accomplished Without Passion.

It Is A Matter Of Perfect Indifference Where A Thing Originated; The Only Question Is: Is It True In And For Itself?

The Soul Is Presupposed As A Ready-made Agent, Which Displays Such Features As Its Acts And Utterances, From Which We Can Learn What It Is, What Sort Of Faculties And Powers It Possesses -- All Without Being Aware That The Act And Utterance Of What The Soul Is Really Invests It With That Character In Our Conception And Makes It Reach A Higher Stage Of Being Than It Explicitly Had Before.

All The Worth Which The Human Being Possesses All Spiritual Reality, He Possesses Only Through The State... For Truth Is The Unity Of The Universal And Subjective Will; And The Universal Is To Be Found In The State, In Its Laws, Its Universal And Rational Arrangements. The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth. We Have In It, Therefore, The Object Of History In A More Definite Shape Than Before; That In Which Freedom Obtains Objectivity...