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individual subjects, proves to be also in that very fact a 

 definitely constituted object of the most complex type; 

 while at the same time the special object thus developed 

 to subjectivity is able as subject to regard the World-Pro- 

 cess itself as object. In other words, the self-objectifying 

 of the World-Energy, or absolute, self-realizing Subject, 

 attains actual completeness only in the development in 

 the objective world of a specialized unit, in which uni- 

 versality and particularity are completely blended, in 

 which the objective and the subjective are completely 

 interfused. 



Thus constituted the unit not only exhibits subject- 

 ivity as its dominant characteristic, but also exhibits it 

 developed to genuine spontaneity. Whence the unit 

 shows itself to be already an actually unfolded individual, 

 possessing in more or less highly developed form all 

 the fundamental characteristics of the absolute divine 

 Individual. 



In its fundamental nature this finite individual is, 

 then, a genuine subject or concrete thinking agency; and 

 as such it proves to be in its type the absolute culmination 

 of the created world. For it is true subject; and yet in 

 that very fact it is already the highest possible form of 

 object which the absolute, divine Subject can put forth 

 from itself. For it is, in its true or ideal nature, one with 

 the divine Subject. 



And this it further proves itself to be in the fact that 

 it makes itself its own object; while, at the same time, as 

 subject or thinking agency, it also opposes itself to 

 (that is, contrasts itself with) the absolute divine Subject 

 which, as such, now bears the character of absolute 

 Object to the created subject. 



