[249] The two sides would appear to be the secularity of the social organism and "free" love.
[250] This I think is the meaning. Until the full notion of liberty is apprehended the divisions of class will have the appearance of natural necessity.
[251] Schiller's drama of that name.
[252] Die an und für sich seyende Allgemeinheit. The universal notion as explicitly made actual in life.
[253] Ein in sich konkretes Individuum. The whole of this analysis appears to me a rather abstract and professorial consideration of romantic attachment, separating love from its reality of association and relation in actual life. In so far as it is true it is purely abstract truth, and must be regarded as such. In actual life it is no more true that even in the average case misfortune blights the blossom than it is true that the love of the individual concentrates itself solely on the mere attachment between two persons. It is bound up with the idea of family and continuation of the race, and so indirectly with the State.
[254] As sister of her violated brother Polyneices.
[255] Act I, sc. 4.