Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|244| and relates itself to something else – wants to excite drive, desire, and thus has contingency in it – Equally unceasing is the struggle for simplification of labour, invention of other machines etc. – The skill of the singular is the possibility of preserving his existence. – This is subject to the complete entanglement of the chance of the whole – Thus a multitude are condemned to the wholly dulling, unhealthy and insecure factory, manufactory labours that restrict skill – mines etc., – and branches of industry which sustained a large class of people dry up all at once because of fashion – or cheapening through inventions in other countries, etc. and this whole multitude is abandoned to poverty, which cannot help itself. – The opposition of great wealth and great poverty [arises] – poverty, for which it becomes impossible to get anything ahead; – wealth, like every mass, makes itself into a force, – accumulation of wealth partly by chance, – partly through universality, through distribution – a point of attraction of a kind which casts [its] glance further over the universal, gathers round itself – as a large mass draws the smaller ones to itself; – unto him that hath shall be given. – Acquisition becomes a many-sided system that brings returns from all sides which a smaller business cannot use; – or the highest abstraction of labour reaches through all the more singular kinds, and obtains an all the wider scope. – This inequality of wealth and poverty, – this need and necessity becomes the utmost disruption of the will, – inner indignation and hatred – This necessity, which is the complete contingency of singular existence, is, however, equally its sustaining substance; – the power of the state steps in, and must see to it that every sphere is sustained, intervene; seek out outlets, new channels of sale in other countries – etc. – make the one more difficult, in so far as it encroaches too much to the disadvantage of the others – freedom of trade, the intervention must be as inconspicuous as possible; for it is the field of arbitrary will – the semblance of force must be avoided;

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