the same relation that was the commencement; the Non-Ego remains an infinite appulse, an absolutely other; the ultimate mutual connexion of it and of the Ego is the infinite progress, longing and struggle, seeking and searching,-the same contradiction which was begun with.

'Because the quantitative element is the determinateness that is express as sublated, it was believed that much, or rather all, had been won for the unity of the Absolute, for the One Substantiality, when the antithesis in general was set down to a difference only quantitative. Every antithesis is only quantitative, was for a time a main position of the later Philosophy; the opposed determinations have the same nature, the same substance; they are real sides of the antithesis, so far as each of them has within it both values, both factors of the antithesis, only that on the one side the one factor, on the other the other, is preponderant; on the one side the one factor, a matter or power, is present in greater quantity or in stronger degree than on the other. So far as different matters or powers are presupposed, the quantitative difference rather confirms and completes their externality and indifference to each other and to their unity. The difference of the absolute Unity is to be only quantitative; Quantitativity is indeed the sublated immediate determinateness, but it is only the uncompleted, only the first negation, not the infinite, not the negation of the negation. In that Being and Thought are represented as quantitative determinations of the Absolute Substance, even they, as Quanta, become, just like Carbon, Azote, &c., in a subordinate sphere, perfectly external to each other and void of connexion. It is a Third (party), an external reflexion, which abstracts from their difference and

perceives their inner unity, that is only in itself and not equally for itself. This unity, consequently, is represented in effect only as first immediate unity, or only as Being, which, in its quantitative difference, remains equal to itself, but does not set itself equal to itself through itself; it is thus not comprehended as negation of negation, as infinite unity. Only in the qualitative antithesis arises the explicit Infinite, the Being-for-self, and the quantitative determination itself passes over, as will presently more particularly yield itself, into the Qualitative.'

REMARK 2,

Which occurs here, concerns Kant, and is reserved for the present. It is again one of those miracles of analysis of which, as yet, no man but Hegel has set the example-a perspicacity absolutely irresistible!—a singleness of statement absolutely annihilative!

c. The Infinitude of the Quantum.

1. The infinite Quantum, as infinitely great or infinitely little, is itself an sich the infinite Progress; it is Quantum as great or small, and it is at the same time non-being of Quantum. The infinitely great and infinitely little are therefore images of figurate conception, which, on closer consideration, show themselves as idle mist and shadow. But in the infinite Progress this contradiction is explicitly present, and withal that also that is the nature of the Quantumwhich as intensive magnitude has reached its reality, and in its There-being is now explicitly set as it is in its Notion. This identity is what we have to consider.

"The Quantum as degree is simple, unal, referred to itself and as determined in itself. In that through this

unality the otherwiseness and the determinateness in it is sublated, this determinateness is external to it, it has its determinateness out of it. This its out-of-itself-ness is at first hand the abstract non-being of the Quantum in general, the spurious Infinite. But further this nonbeing is also a magnitude, the Quantum continues itself into its non-being, for it has just its determinateness in its externality; this its externality is itself therefore equally Quantum; that, its non-being, the Infinitude, becomes thus limited, that is to say, this Beyond is sublated, is itself determined as Quantum, which is thus in its negation by its own self.

'This, however, is what the Quantum as such is an sich. For it is just itself (es selbst) through its outerliness; the externality constitutes that whereby it is Quantum, is by its own self. In the infinite Progress, therefore, the Notion of the Quantum is Express, Explicit.

Let us take it (the Progress) at first hand in its abstract distinctive features as they lie before us, then there is present in it the sublation of the Quantum, but equally also of its Beyond, therefore the negation of the Quantum as well as the negation of this negation. Its (the Progress') truth is their unity, in which they are but as moments. This unity is the solution of the contradiction of which the Progress is the expression, and its (this unity's) closest meaning consequently is the restoration of the notion of Quantity,—that it is indifferent or external limit. In the infinite Progress as such, it is usually only considered, that each Quantum, however great or small, must be capable of disappearing, that it must be capable of being transcended; but it is not considered, that this its sublation, the Beyond, the downright Infinite itself disappears also.

Even the first sublation, the negation of Quality in general, whereby Quantum becomes explicit, is an sich the sublation of the negation, -the Quantum is sublated qualitative limit, consequently sublated negation,— but it is at the same time only an sich this; it is set as a There-being, and then its negation is fixed as the Infinite, as the Beyond of Quantum which stands as a Here, a This side, as an immediate; thus the infinite is determined only as first negation, and so it appears in the infinite progress. It has been shown that there is, however, more present in this last,—the negation of the negation, or that which the infinite is in truth. This was before regarded as that the Notion of the Quantum is thus again restored; this restoration means, in direct reference, that its There-being has received its closer determination; there has arisen, namely, the Quantum determined according to its Notion, which is different from the Immediate Quantum-the externality is now the contrary of itself, explicitly set as moment of the Magnitude itself, the Quantum so that by means of its non-being, the infinite, it has in another Quantum its determinateness, i. e. qualitatively is that which it is. Nevertheless, this comparison of the Notion with the There-being of the Quantum belongs more to our reflexion, to a relation that is not yet present here. The immediately next determination is, that the Quantum has returned into Quality, is now once again qualitatively determined. For its peculiarity, Quality, is the externality, indifference of the determinateness; and it is now explicitly set, as being in its externality rather itself, as therein referring itself to itself, as in simplicity with itself, i. e. as being qualitatively determined. This Qualitativity is more particularly determined, namely, as Being-for-self; for the reference to

itself to which it has come, arises out of Mediation, the negation of the negation. The Quantum has the Infinite, the For-self-determinedness no longer out of it, but in itself.

"The Infinite, which in the infinite Progress has only the empty sense of a Non-being, of an unreached, but sought Beyond, is in effect nothing else than Quality. The Quantum as indifferent limit passes out beyond itself into the infinite; it seeks so nothing else than the for-self-determinedness, the qualitative moment, that, however, in this way, is only a To-be-to. Its indifference to the limit, consequently its defect of beënt-for-self-determinateness and its going out beyond itself, is what makes the Quantum Quantum; that, its going-out, is to be negated, and to find for itself in the infinite its absolute determinateness.

Quite generally: the Quantum is sublated Quality; but the Quantum is infinite, transcends itself, is the negation of itself; this its transcendence is, therefore, an sich the negation of the negated Quality, the restoration of Quality; and this is explicitly set, that the externality which appeared as Beyond, is determined as the own moment of the Quantum.

'The Quantum is thus set as repelled from itself, whereby there are therefore two Quanta, which, nevertheless, are sublated, only are as moments of one unity, and this unity is the determinateness of the Quantum. This (Quantum) thus referred to itself in its externality as indifferent limit, and consequently qualitatively set, is the Quantitative Relation. In relation the Quantum is external to itself, different from itself; this its externality is the referring of one Quantum to another Quantum, of which each is only valid in this its reference to its other; and this reference constitutes the