Because history is the shaping of spirit in the form of happening — of immediate natural actuality — the stages of development are present as immediate natural principles; and these, being natural, subsist as a plurality external to one another, and thus further in such a way that to one nation falls one of these — its geographical and anthropological existence.
§ 346: Geography and nations
History is the shape of spirit in events, in natural actuality.
What follows from this?
The stages of spirit appear as natural principles. Because they are natural, they lie apart from each other. Each nation receives one of them. This shows in its place on the earth and in its character.
Summary: In history the stages of spirit appear as natural principles. Each nation receives one, together with its place and its character.
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