The Old Age of Nature is weakness; but that of Spirit is its perfect maturity and strength , in which it returns to unity with itself, but in its fully developed character as Spirit.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Topic maturity weakness
Date 1837
Language English
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Note Translated by J. Sibree
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