Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 14: Philosophy (Continued); Economics The glory of the Oriental conception is the one indi vidual as the substantial being to which all belongs, so that no other individual has a separate existence, or mirrors himself in his subjective freedom. All the riches of imagination and nature are appropriated to that domi nant existence in which subjective freedom is essentially merged; the latter looks for its dignity not in itself but in the absolute object. All the elements of a complete state - even subjectivity - may be found there, but not yet harmonised with the grand substantial being. For outside the one power - before which nothing can main tain an independent existence - there is only revolting caprice, which, beyond the limits of the central power, moves at will without purpose or result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.