[287] The sphere of objective fact.
[288] From Nature, that is.
[289] Ihres inneren Verlaufs. I suppose Hegel means action under the aspect in which it forms a part of the individual development—regarded in its relation to will and consciousness.
[290] That is, the Christian community.
[291] Den Menschen als Menschheit, that is in his generally secular aspect.
[292] I presume this is the sense of gebrochen here. But lower down it would mean apparently discordant.
[293] By "fantastic" Hegel seems to me to mean that which is based on a fancy or imagination that is wholly personal to the artist, and so adventitious in its results.
[294] Sicheres Gemüth—"consistent" both in its literal and metaphorical senses—one that holds together and is thus self-assured.
[295] Das Romanhafte. I cannot think of an English expression which exactly corresponds.
[296] Sich schrauben, like the winding smoke from a bottle—the corkscrew—-ironical of course.