Section 346
Original German
346 Weil die Geschichte die Gestaltung des Geistes in Form des Geschehens, der unmittelbaren natürlichen Wirklichkeit ist, so sind die Stufen der Entwickelung als unmittelbare natürliche Principien vorhanden, und diese, weil sie natürliche sind, sind als eine Vielheit außer einander, somit ferner so, daß Einem Volke eines derselben zukommt, — seine geographische und anthropologische Existenz.
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.
346 Because history is the configuration of spirit in the form of happening, of immediate natural actuality, the stages of development are present as immediate natural principles, and these, because they are natural, are a plurality outside one another, and moreover in such a way that one of them falls to one people—its geographical and anthropological existence.
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.
346 History is the shaping of spirit in the form of events, of immediate natural actuality. So the stages of development are present as immediate natural principles. Because they are natural, they are a plurality, one outside another. It follows further that one of them falls to each people. This is that people's geographical and anthropological existence.
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Section 346 is part of Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This page sets the German original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is section 348 of 362 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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