[303] Für das Allgemeine.
[304] In einer Nacht. A condensed description of the true story apparently.
[305] That is to say, it is made up of units all ready to pull in different directions.
[306] A remarkable instance of the type in our own days was General Gordon. A perusal of his correspondence from Khartoum makes it sufficiently clear that he considered it his duty to remain despite all orders to the contrary, so long as the garrison remained unwithdrawn; no doubt he considered the reverse course dishonourable to England, but first of all it was dishonourable to himself.
[307] Fürsicheinsiehen.
[308] Das Vornehme. There is probably here a further allusion to the respectability associated with grandeur. The same is true of the compositions of the great Italian painters.
[309] Ausgebildeten. I have hesitated to translate this "cultivated" as the context appears to suggest rather the kind of regime we find in the highly official centralization of such a monarchy as that of Prussia in Hegel's time or the artificial eighteenth century. But the whole passage rings rather strangely to modern ideas, or at least to English notions of democracy.
[310] Götz von Berlichengen was Goethe's first drama, published in the year 1773, though the first version of it was written in 1771.
[311] Das Waltende, e.g., a force which is predominant.
[312] Gehalt, content, that is, in its configurative energy.