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Into the relation of states to one another — since within it they are particular — there falls the most agitated play of inner particularity: of passions, interests, purposes, of talents and virtues, of violence, wrong, and vice, as well as of external contingency, in the greatest dimensions of appearance — a play in which the ethical whole itself, the independence of the state, is exposed to contingency. The principles of the spirits of nations are, on account of their particularity — in which, as existing individuals, they have their objective actuality and their self-consciousness — limited in general, and their fates and deeds in their relations to one another are the manifest dialectic of the finitude of these spirits, out of which the universal spirit, the spirit of the world, produces itself as unlimited, just as it is this spirit that exercises its right — and its right is the highest right of all — over them in world history, as the court of the world.

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  1. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1827), § 548:

    § 548. The determinate spirit of a people, since it is actual and its freedom is as nature, is accordingly of a particular geographical and climatic determinacy; it is also in time and has to run through a development of its consciousness and its actuality determined by its particular principle; – it has a history. As a limited spirit, its independence is, on this second side, something subordinate; it passes over into universal world history — the world court — whose events present the dialectic of the particular spirits of peoples.

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    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1830), § 548:

    § 548. The determinate spirit of a people, since it is actual and its freedom is as nature, has, on this side of nature, the moment of geographical and climatic determinacy; it is in time and has, as regards its content, essentially a particular principle, and has to run through a development of its consciousness and its actuality determined by it; – it has a history within itself. As a limited spirit, its independence is something subordinate; it passes over into universal world history — the world court — whose events present the dialectic of the particular spirits of peoples.

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