History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The destiny of the spiritual World, and, — since this is the substantial World, while the physical remains subordinate to it, or, in the language of speculation, has no truth as against the spiritual, — the final cause of the World at large, we allege to be the consciousness of its own freedom on the part of Spirit, and ipso facto, the reality of that freedom.

Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.