World History Is A Court Of Judgment.

The Bud Disappears When The Blossom Breaks Through, And We Might Say That The Former Is Refuted By The Latter; In The Same Way When The Fruit Comes, The Blossom May Be Explained To Be A False Form Of The Plant's Existence, For The Fruit Appears As Its True Nature In Place Of The Blossom.

The East Knew And To The Present Day Knows Only That One Is Free; The Greek And The Roman World, That Some Are Free; The German World Knows That All Are Free. The First Political Form Therefore Which We Observe In History, Is Despotism, The Second Democracy And Aristocracy, The Third, Monarchy.

The Few Assume To Be The Deputies, But They Are Often Only The Despoilers Of The Many.

If We Go On To Cast A Look At The Fate Of These World-historical Persons, Whose Vocation It Was To Be The Agents Of The World-spirit, We Shall Find It To Have Been No Happy One. They Attained No Calm Enjoyment; Their Whole Life Was Labour And Trouble; Their Whole Nature Was Nought Else But Their Master—passion. When Their Object Is Attained They Fall Off Like Empty Hulls From The Kernel. They Die Early, Like Alexander; They Are Murdered, Like Caesar.

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational