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unless it translates itself into another sign
in which it is more fully developed. Thought
requires achievement for its own development,
and without this development it
is nothing. Thought must live and grow
in incessant new and higher translations,
or it proves itself not to be genuine
thought.

But the mind loses itself in such
general questions and seems to floating
in a limitless vacuity. It is of the
very essence of thought and purpose
that it should be special, just as truly
as it is of the essence of either that
it should be general. [Skip to 52]
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