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The inwardness of the principle — as the reconciliation and resolution of all opposition, still abstract and existing only in feeling, as faith, love, and hope — unfolds its content, raising it to actuality and to self-conscious rationality, into a temporal realm proceeding from the heart, from fidelity and the fellowship of free men; a realm which, in this its subjectivity, is likewise a realm of raw caprice existing for itself and of barbarism of custom — set over against a world beyond, an intellectual realm, whose content is indeed that truth of its spirit, but which, as still unthought, is shrouded in the barbarism of representation, and which, as a spiritual power over the actual heart, comports itself toward that heart as an unfree, terrible force.

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