In virtue of the freedom and infinitude above analysed, which is inherent in the notion of beauty, whether we view it in its objective presence as a thing of beauty, or under its aesthetic contemplation, we disengage the province of the beautiful from the relations of finite condition, to exalt it into that of the Idea and its truth. [Footnote 188: This is, of course, a note of Hegel himself.] [Footnote 189: This, of course, has reference to Hegel's unfortunate belief in Goethe's theory of colour.] [Footnote 190: Mediated (_vermittelt_), because the concrete is first apprehended through its differences, and only after reflection do we arrive at the notional unity which transcends and unites them.] [Footnote 191: _Momente._ Phases asserted and reconciled in the evolved notional unity, organic or otherwise. The notion is subjective because it is an ideal unity.] [Footnote 192: The text is clearly corrupt. The full-stop after _herzustellen_ should be a comma, and _auch_ would be preferably changed to _als die._] [Footnote 193: As essentially reason.] [Footnote 194: Not the substantive, but past participle.] [Footnote 195: _Das sinnliche Scheinen._] [Footnote 196: _Verstand_ in the technical sense of Kant's philosophy; that is, the faculty of scientific observation or ordinary perception--analytical, in contrast to reason (_Vernunft_), the synthetic faculty.] [Footnote 197: Infinite, that is to say, as human freedom is infinite, as mind is infinite, an ideal totality, a whole complete in itself, not an endless progress, which is a contradiction.] [Footnote 198: Or, as Hegel says, "by suppressing the subjective principle altogether."] [Footnote 199: _Theoretischen_ here used in sense of true philosophical theory, not one-sided views as above.] [Footnote 200: _Vollendete Durchdringung_, _i.e._, a penetration through all parts.] CHAPTER II THE BEAUTY OF NATURE Beauty is the Idea as the immediate unity of the notion and its objective reality, yet is only the Idea in so far as its unity is immediately present in shape apprehensible to the senses and as semblance of the real. The most elementary form of existence, which the Idea take to itself is _Nature_, and the first form of beauty is that of _Nature._ A. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AS SUCH 1. In the world of Nature we must distinguish between the modes according to which the notion becomes existent reality in order to be part of the Idea.