§ 87 It is not of the nature of the all…pervading Spirit to die this merely natural death。
§ 88 The highest point in the development of a people is this： to have reduced its laws； its ideas of
justice and morality to a science。
§ 89 We have then before us a real and an ideal existence of the Spirit of the Nation。
§ 90 We are sure to see a people putting talk about virtue partly side by side with actual virtue。
§ 91 At the same time the isolation of individuals from each other and from the Whole makes its
appearance。
§ 92 Zeus and his race are themselves swallowed up by the very power that produced them —
the principle of thought。
§ 93 Time is the negative element in the sensuous world。 Thought is the same negativity。
§ 94 Thought is that Universal … that Species which is immortal。
§ 95 Spirit； in rendering itself objective and making this an object of thought； destroys the
determinate form of its being； but gains a prehension of its universal element。
§ 96 The individual traverses as a unity various grades of development； and remains the same
individual； in like manner also does a people。
§ 97 The life of a people ripens a certain fruit。 But this fruit does not fall back into the bosom of
the people that produced it； but bees a poison…draught to it。
§ 98 The principles of the successive phases of Spirit that animate Nations； are only steps of the
one universal Spirit。
§ 99 Philosophy； as occupying itself with the True； has only to do with the eternally present。。
Introduction
The subject of this course of Lectures is the Philosophical History of the World。 And by this must
be understood； not a collection of general