[Footnote 6: Hegel uses the 'technical term _Inhalt_ in this passage to signify either (_a_) the quality of significance, or (_b_) the object which is symbolized by virtue of some selected quality. The use of it in both senses makes the passage somewhat difficult to follow.] [Footnote 7: _Inhalt_ here evidently is the abstract quality.] [Footnote 8: Necessarily because such ambiguity is implied in the idea (_seinem Begriff nach_).] [Footnote 9: This, I think, is the sense. The language literally is, "Which a form under several possible significations, as symbol of any of which (_deren_) it can be employed often through connecting links (_Zusammenhänge_) more remote, may be taken to symbolize."] [Footnote 10: The German words are _Begreifen_ and _Schliessen_, which in their original sense are "to grasp with the hand" (_prehendo_) and "to shut" or "lock up." The English words in a still fainter form carry the same significance through the Latin language. The symbolism of language at this stage is obviously only apparent to the student of language.] [Footnote 11: That is, more abstract.] [Footnote 12: Or in English: /# Forth on the ocean is shipped Youth with his thousand sails: Silent in bark barely saved steals into harbour old age. #/] [Footnote 13: _Substantielle_, that is, an artistic consciousness which is aware of its own essential nature--Spirit, and the object of pure intelligence--the Ideal.] [Footnote 14: Perhaps we should rather say a Theosophy.] [Footnote 15: The Alexandrine School, of which Plotinus and Philo are leading names.] [Footnote 16: _Ein allgemeiner Gedanke._ The reference throughout this paragraph to the universality of the ideas of reflection as contrasted with the sensuous image is rather a reference to the abstract conceptions of the analytical mind, that is, which are usually understood as universals in the sense of generic conceptions, than any fuller grasp of concrete reality such as possesses a truly ideal significance. So in its application to the metaphor I imagine what is meant is that we have here the process of dry analysis which merely destroys its significance as metaphor, that is, its synthetic unity for our aesthetic sense.] [Footnote 17: _Ist aufgehoben_, here not in the sense of being cancelled, but raised to the expression of concrete unity.] [Footnote 18: _Als blosse Personification_, that is, an individualization which impersonates the subjective identity without possessing its concrete substance, a personified shadow like the sphinx. Such appears to be the sense.] [Footnote 19: Because the content for which such shapes (_Gestaltung_) are given is itself incoherent, and therefore incompatible with adequate expression.]