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    The scientific method by which the conception is self-evolved,
    and its phases self-developed and self-produced, is not first of all an
    assurance that certain relations are given from somewhere or other,
    and then the application to this foreign material of the universal. The
    true process is found in the logic, and here is presupposed.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Groundlines of the Philosophy of Right