[17th Paragraph]
What lies between reason as self-conscious spirit and reason as present actuality, what separates the former from the latter and does not let it find satisfaction in it, is the fetter of some abstraction that has not been liberated into the concept. To recognize reason as the rose in the cross of the present and thereby to delight in it—this rational insight is the reconciliation with actuality, which philosophy grants to those upon whom the inner demand has once been made to comprehend and to maintain subjective freedom in that which is substantial, as well as to stand, with subjective freedom, not in something particular and contingent but in what is in and for itself.
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