barren chamber of ideal subjectivity to flow forth freely into real and substantive _objectivity._ In other words, the notion through its own activity posits itself as objective reality. (_b_) Objectivity is therefore, truly apprehended, the _real existence_ of the _notion._ It is, however, the notion under the mode of self-substantive particularization and of a differentiation of all _antithetical_ phases[191] of reality, whose ideal unity the notion in its subjective capacity constituted. But inasmuch as it is the _notion_, and only the notion, whose function it is to endow objectivity with its determinate existence and reality, so too it is only through objectivity that the _notion_ is unveiled in its actuality. The notion is, however, the mediating and _ideal unity_ of all its particular antitheses. Within its differentiated reality this ideal unity, effective throughout particularity in modes adequate to the notion, has to establish itself in them, precisely in a way similar to that in which the realized particularity of their unity, as thus mediated to the point of ideality, has also to exist in them[192]. This is the might of the notion, which refuses to surrender or forfeit its universality among the _disjecta membra_ of the objective world, but rather reveals its essential unity through such reality and within it. For it is nothing less than the very life of the notion to preserve its unity in the material which is offered it. Only by so doing is it real and veritable totality. (_c_) This totality is the _Idea._ The Idea is not simply the ideal unity and subjectivity of the notion. It is quite as much its true and objective reality; it is, however, an objectivity which does not confront the notion as an opposing factor, but is rather that in which the notion itself is self-determined. In whichever aspect we contemplate the notion, whether as subjective to our apprehension, or as objectively real, the Idea it manifests is a totality. But it is more than this. It is the unity which for ever is mediating between and bringing into more perfected harmony the two totalities. Only as thus apprehended is the Idea truth and indeed all truth.