The State is absolutely rational inasmuch as it is the actuality of the substantial will which it possesses in the particular self-consciousness once that consciousness has been raised to consciousness of its universality.
Dialectical philosophy
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Part III, Ethical Life, Section III, The State, §258
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1821
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