[125] "Eitelkeit," also = "conceit;" which is the other side of this attitude. Hegel uses it on purpose.
[126] "Eitle."
[127] "Sehnsuchtigkeit."
[128] "Krankhafte Schönseligkeit." Schönseligkeit seems to be really a word formed like Redselig, etc., but to be given an equivocating reference to "Schöne Seele," which I have rendered in the next sentence by "saintly soul."
[129] "Eitlen," "Eitelkeit."
[130] This recurring phrase may be used etymologically, as a reminiscence of the Platonic πληρουσθαι.
[131] Haltung: "bearing" in general, and more especially the bearing of one who bears himself nobly by reason of a principle.
[132] See Scherer, Eng. Transl., ii. 248.
[133] It is natural for a reader to ask in what person or subject God is conceived to have reality. On this see below, p. 165. It appears certain to me that Hegel, when he writes thus, is referring to the self-consciousness of individual human beings as constituting, and reflecting on, an ideal unity between them. This may seem to put a non-natural meaning on the term "person" or "subject," as if the common element of a number of intelligences could be a single person. It is obvious that the question hinges on the degree in which a unity that is not sensuous but ideal can be effective and actual. I can only say here, that the more we consider the nature of ideal unity the higher we shall rate its capabilities. See Prefatory Essay, p. xiv.
[134] Fackeldistel = "Torch thistle," a plant of the genus Cereus, Nat. Order Cactaceæ.