Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|271| through everything, animate it, preserve it, and bring it back into the universal – It is necessity, and the life of the pouring out of the particular into the universal; the administration and coming-to-be of public wealth, as well as the exercise of right, and then the police. – The strength of the government consists in this,¹⁶³⁾ that each system, as if it were alone, develops itself freely and independently according to its concept, – and the wisdom of the government in modifying each at the same time according to the estate, i.e. in relaxing the strictness of the abstract concept for the sake of its living entrails – as the veins and nerves give way to the different entrails, and adjust and form themselves according to them – The stiff abstract ordering of the powers for all estates in the same way makes up the harshness of a government. – But if this abstract is modified without giving itself up, there arises thereby the contentment of the estates with their government – levies on the peasant cruder, taxes and tithes something that is without great formality; – he must not be exposed to the lengthy formalities that occur with customs duties on merchant goods. Indirect imposts must bear with their whole weight principally on the burgher and merchant estate – The peasant becomes through formalities – himself, it is true, more attentive and more cultivated – but his dullness must be given way to – Likewise in respect of the judicial – for the peasant estate the easier, cruder justice must be present – for the burgher the rightful, detailed one, so that his right is surely done him on all sides – for the merchant the hard, strict one of the law of exchange – marriage laws altered according to the character of the estates – peasant folk – burghers too are more easily reconciled again, – thrash each other and become good friends again – But the deeper sense, the more malicious nature of the higher estates goes into itself, can neither forget nor be reconciled – In respect of criminal [right] too there can be difference, modifications in

163) In the margin: substance in which all moments go on proliferating

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