Section 250
Original German
b. Die Corporation.
250 Der ackerbauende Stand hat an der Substantialität seines Familien- und Naturlebens in ihm selbst unmittelbar sein concretes Allgemeines, in welchem er lebt, der allgemeine Stand hat in seiner Bestimmung das Allgemeine für sich zum Zwecke seiner Thätigkeit und zu seinem Boden. Die Mitte zwischen beyden, der Stand des Gewerbes, ist auf das Besondere wesentlich gerichtet und ihm ist daher vornemlich die Corporation eigenthümlich.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean translation made directly from Hegel's German in the Berlin Nicolai first edition, dated 1821. Complete preface, introduction and sections 1–360, including the author's remarks and notes; no later Gans additions.
250 b. The Corporation.
The agricultural estate has, in the substantiality of its family and natural life, its concrete universal immediately in itself, in which it lives; the universal estate has in its determination the universal as such as the end of its activity and as its ground. The middle between the two, the estate of trade and industry, is essentially directed to the particular, and the corporation is therefore chiefly proper to it.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation made directly from the German first-edition source, not from the Musean edition or an existing English translation. Complete preface, introduction and sections 1–360 with the author's remarks and notes.
b. The Corporation.
250 The agricultural class has its concrete universal directly within itself, in the substantial character of its family and natural life, and it lives in that universal. The universal class has the universal itself, for its own sake, as the purpose of its activity and as its ground, because of its vocation. The class of trade and industry lies between the two. It is directed essentially toward the particular, and so the corporation is especially proper to it.
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