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3. The concluding and immediate singularity of the person relates to a nature it finds already present, to which the personality of the will, as something subjective, is thereby opposed; but this will, being in itself infinite and universal, finds the restriction of being merely subjective contradictory and null. It is the active power that cancels this restriction and gives itself reality, or, what is the same thing, that posits that existence as its own.

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    3. Man [is] lord over everything in nature – only through him [does it attain] existence as [existence] of freedom – it has no soul of its own, is not an end in itself – not even living nature – only man as free, – not as living.
    Life indeed an end in itself – not for itself –

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