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onsciousness; i。e。 to itself。
§ 65
We have already made the remark how the mencement of the history of Spirit must be
conceived so as to be in harmony with its Idea — in its bearing on the representations that have
been made of a primitive “natural condition;” in which freedom and justice are supposed to
exist; or to have existed。 This was; however; nothing more than an assumption of historical
existence; conceived in the twilight of theorising reflection。 A pretension of quite another order; —
not a mere inference of reasoning; but making the claim of historical fact; and that supernaturally
confirmed; — is put forth in connection with a different view that is now widely promulgated by a
certain class of speculatists。 This view takes up the idea of the primitive paradisaical condition of
man; which had been previously expanded by the Theologians; after their fashion; — involving;
e。g。; the supposition that God spoke with Adam in Hebrew; — but remodelled to suit other
requirements。 The high authority appealed to in the first instance is the biblical narrative。 But this
depicts the primitive condition; partly only in the few well…known traits; but partly either as in man
generically; — human nature at large; — or; so far as Adam is to be taken as an individual; and
consequently one person; — as existing and pleted in this one; or only in one human pair。
The biblical
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