With this degradation of the powers which are purely natural and of the animal aspect no less than of the abstract universality of spiritual relations, and with the re-acceptance of the same within the spiritual individuality, permeated and Suffused as it is with Nature, we leave behind us the origins of classical art which are stamped with necessity and are presupposed by its essence, inasmuch as it is on this path that the Ideal evolves itself by its own agency with that which it is according to its notion. This reality of the spiritual gods adequate to its notion carries us on to the genuine Ideals of the classical type of art, which, in contrast to the old _régime_ which has been vanquished, represent immortality[179], for mortality generally resides in the incompatibility of the notion to its determinate existence.
[Footnote 139: _Als eine Unwürdigkeit_. As something unworthy of the full notion of its gods.]
[Footnote 140: That is, the relegation of it to a position of inferiority.]
[Footnote 141: This is the German word. By genius I presume Hegel means "the familiar spirit" of a particular animal. Apparently this rather than "kind." "Iliad," II, 308; XII, 208.]
[Footnote 142: "Odyss." XIV, 414; XXIV, 215.]
[Footnote 144: "Metam." VI, vv. 440-676.]
[Footnote 151: That is, the sphere of fauns as a part of Nature.]
[Footnote 152: _Praktisch._ The contrast is between the philosophic contemplation and the world regarded as the sphere of human activity.]
[Footnote 153: By _Umkehr_ Hegel probably means a "return" in the direction of the art of the Sublime.]
[Footnote 154: _Einen bestimmten Kreis._ The meaning seems to be that the circle of examples is here a clearly defined and limited one as contrasted with the vagueness of Oriental Pantheism.]
[Footnote 156: _War ein entscheidendes Moment._ That is, was part of the oracular reply.]
[Footnote 157: Both wording and punctuation of this sentence are at fault, but I give the sense no doubt intended.]
[Footnote 158: I am not sure what is referred to here by _Telchinen_ and _Pätaken._]
[Footnote 159: _Das Ganze_, means here, I think, the whole of Creation.]
[Footnote 160: That is, took no further active interest in human life.]
[Footnote 161: Politicus ex rec. Bekk. II, 2, p. 283; Steph. 274.]