[34] Als das zu Erhaltende, viz., the consistency of concrete life.
[35] By ihrer unendlichen Sicherheit Hegel refers to the stability of the principle of self-conscious, and self-assured character, which in its weakness may be merely equivalent to cocksuredness.
[36] Wohlgemuthkeit und Zuversicht.
[37] Hegel seems to have in his mind characters in comedy of which Falstaff may be taken as a supreme example, and Shakespeare above all the creator of many such. Roy Richmond and Sancho Panza are of the same type.
[38] Der in der Menschenbrust waltenden Götter.
[39] In no religious or even strictly ethical sense of course.
[40] I am not quite sure what Hegel means by his use here of the word Versühnung, lit., reconciliation. I presume he means a power of harmonious recovery, whether in a good sense is not quite clear.
[41] Formal as contrasted with really ethical content.
[42] Die Substanz. I presume this is the meaning, i.e., the substantive ideality of the ethical forces inherent in man. The entire passage is sufficiently difficult to translate, or indeed wholly to follow, or at least apart from its subsequent application to the chorus of Tragedy.
[43] Allgemeine. Formal in the sense that such a state is not concretely realized in action, but restricts itself to the ideal homogeneity of its form.