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|346| The states, nations, and individuals engaged in this business of the world spirit arise each with its own particular determinate principle, which has its interpretation and actuality in their constitution and in the whole breadth of their condition; they are conscious of this interpretation and actuality and absorbed in their interest, while at the same time they are the unconscious tools and members of that inner business in which these shapes pass away, even as spirit in and for itself prepares and works out its transition to its next higher stage.

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    § 344: Tools of the world spirit

    States, nations and individuals appear with their own particular principle. It shows in their constitution and their whole life. They know about it, and they lose themselves in their interests.

    What happens here?

    At the same time they are unconscious tools of the world spirit. Their shapes pass away. But in them spirit prepares its passage to its next stage.

    Summary: Nations and individuals pursue their own ends consciously. At the same time they are unconscious tools of the world spirit. Through them it reaches the next stage.

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