|349| To emerge in legal determinations and in objective institutions, proceeding from marriage and agriculture (see § 203 Anm.), is the absolute right of the Idea — whether the form of this its actualization appears as divine legislation and beneficence, or as violence and wrong; this right is the right of heroes to found states.
§ 350: The right of heroes
The Idea has an absolute right: it must come forth in laws and firm institutions. This begins with marriage and agriculture.
How does this happen?
Sometimes it appears as divine lawgiving and as a kindness. Sometimes it appears as violence and wrong. In both cases the right of heroes to found states holds.
Summary: The Idea has the absolute right to become real in laws and institutions. This is the right of heroes to found states, whether through kindness or through violence.
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