For only implicitly or immediately is the life of a free nation the real objective ethical order (Sittlichkeit). In other words, the latter is an existent social order, and in consequence this universal mind is also an individualized mind. It is the totality of customs and laws of a particular people, a specifically determinate ethical substance, which casts off this limitation only when it reaches the higher moment, namely, when it becomes conscious regarding its own nature; only with this knowledge does it get its absolute truth, and not as it is immediately in its bare existence.
izan ere, soilik bere baitan edo bitartegabe da herri aske baten bizitza etikotasun erre ala, edo hori badena da, eta beraz, gogo orokor hori ere banako bat da, ohituren eta legeen osotasuna substantzia etiko determinatu bat da, eta horrek une garaienean, hots, bere zerizanari buruzko kontzientzian baztertzen du murriztapena, eta ezagutze horretan baino ez du bere egia absolutua, ez ordea bere izatean bitartegabe;