gave way before and were absorbed in the national spirit. here the living individual embodiments of the national spirit fall by their own individuality and disappear in one universal community. whose bare universality is soulless and dead, and whose living activity is found in the particular individual qua particular.
-Lehen penateak baino ez baziren herri-gogoan hondoratu zirenak, orain herri-gogo biziak euren banakotasunaren bidez giza elkarte orokor batean hondoratzen dira, zeinaren orokortasun sinplea gogorik gabekoa eta hila den, eta zeinaren bizitasuna indibiduo banakoa den, banakoa den aldetik.