[Footnote 244: I fail to appreciate this distinction, except in a very qualified form. Even in the Middle Ages when the feudal relation was in full force, the relation between the master and the servant was surely one of the institutions of the State, though no doubt the rights of the dependent were not always very readily enforced. Even in the case of slavery in the Southern States of America the relation between master and slave carried with it quite definite ethical obligations--there was in general at least quite a distinct social if not actually political status.] [Footnote 245: I suppose Hegel means by _ein Punkt_ a centre or point of life. The expression is rather unusual.] [Footnote 246: _Absoluten Geltung_, that is its absolute validity in its ideal character.] [Footnote 247: The punctuation in text is defective.] [Footnote 248: So runs the text. It comes from such a writer with a shock. Why such qualities should vanish (_schwinden_) in the presence of unhappiness it is not easy to see. It would rather appear that such was the condition to evoke them. What is meant is, I suppose, that the failure of _reciprocity_, especially in the love of women, often brings complete collapse. We may illustrate it in several of Meredith's novels such as "Diana" and "Sandra Belloni."] [Footnote 249: The two sides would appear to be the secularity of the social organism and "free" love.] [Footnote 250: This I think is the meaning. Until the full notion of liberty is apprehended the divisions of class will have the appearance of natural necessity.] [Footnote 251: Schiller's drama of that name.] [Footnote 252: _Die an und für sich seyende Allgemeinheit._ The universal notion as explicitly made actual in life.] [Footnote 253: _Ein in sich konkretes Individuum._ The whole of this analysis appears to me a rather abstract and professorial consideration of romantic attachment, separating love from its reality of association and relation in actual life. In so far as it is true it is purely abstract truth, and must be regarded as such. In actual life it is no more true that even in the average case misfortune blights the blossom than it is true that the love of the individual concentrates itself solely on the mere attachment between two persons. It is bound up with the idea of family and continuation of the race, and so indirectly with the State.] [Footnote 254: As sister of her violated brother Polyneices.] [Footnote 255: Act I, sc. 4.] CHAPTER III THE FORMAL SELF-SUBSISTENCY OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICULARITIES