is he engaged solely in his personal advancement, but is one with the reasonable realities about him and is active in the world’s behalf” (3: pp. 124-125). This is the stage of objective idealism. For Fichte, the creation of the ideal world by the power of the subjective will, and the reshaping of actuality according to it, was the noblest and highest destiny of man. But, according to Hegel, this is only a transient phase of the youth, which he must outgrow, if his growth is normal and unhindered. “The youth should shed his horns and adjust himself, with his wishes and plans, to the actual and rational relationships about him” (3: p. 151). This transition from the subjective, abstract idealism of youth to the objective, concrete idealism of manhood is often a painful process, and in many cases leads one to an abject pessimism. “The later it is experienced the worse are its symptoms.... He cannot conquer his repugnance to the actual, and so finds himself relatively incapable, and may easily become so altogether.” If, then, a man is not to succumb to the iron law of actuality, he must recognize its independence and rationality. “He must submit to the condition it imposes, and win from it, though it seems to say him nay, what he will” (3: p. 125). Thus the young man, finally coming down from his Utopian heaven, “enters partnership with the world, and wins for himself adequate standing room.” Although he gives up “his plan of making the world anew,” still “there is room for honorable, far-reaching, creative activity.” For the objective world with which he now identifies himself is a life process, ever renewing itself and ever advancing. “The man’s work is a part of this renewal and advancement. He grows more and more at one with his objective relationships. He becomes accustomed to his work.... In time he becomes perfectly at home in his calling, and gives himself wholly to it. The essential in all the phases of his business becomes a matter of course. Only the individual, the nonessential, presents to him any novelty” (3: pp. 126-127).