reality, has itself objectively present to it. But this having been attained, the activity played by the

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Spirit of the people in question is no longer needed; it has its desire. The Nation can still

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accomplish much in war and peace at home and abroad; but the living substantial soul itself may

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be said to have ceased its activity. The essential, supreme interest has consequently vanished from

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its life, for interest is present only where there is opposition. The nation lives the same kind of life

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as the individual when passing from maturity to old age, — in the enjoyment of itself, — in the

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satisfaction of being exactly what it desired and was able to attain. Although its imagination might

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have transcended that limit, it nevertheless abandoned any such aspirations as objects of actual

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