We Learn From History That

In Duty The Individual Acquires His Substantive Freedom

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational. On This Conviction The Plain Man Like The Philosopher Takes His Stand,and From It Philosophy Starts In Its Study Of The Universe Of Mind As Well As The Universe Of Nature.

In History, We Are Concerned With What Has Been And What Is; In Philosophy, However, We Are Concerned Not With What Belongs Exclusively To The Past Or To The Future, But With That Which Is, Both Now And Eternally — In Short, With Reason.

Children Are Potentially Free And Their Life Directly Embodies Nothing Save Potential Freedom. Consequently They Are Not Things And Cannot Be The Property Either Of Their Parents Or Others.

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.