(_γ_) To remove the defects above adverted to two things are clearly essential; the objective fact and the explanation of it which is offered to mind must not be suffered to fall into absolute _severation_ as was the case in the type last considered, nor must the union when effected, an equally important point, assume a character _identical_ with either the symbolical, sublime or purely comparative types. A yet more genuine form of presentment must be sought for under a condition in which we find that the fact in question supplies an elucidation of its ideal content by means of its external mode of appearance, and actually in this mode, a condition under which that which is of spirit unfolds itself completely in the form of its reality, and the corporeal and external presence is simply the adequate explication of the spiritual and ideal. In order, however, to follow up this problem to its complete _fulfilment_ we must bid farewell to the symbolic types of art. For the essential character of symbolism consisted precisely in this that the union of the animating principle of the significance with its spatial embodiment always _stopped short_ of such completeness.
[Footnote 76: In other words everything created being posited as unsubstantial apart from the One necessitated the conclusion that all the Goodness, etc., there divulged was referable to that Supreme Source.]
[Footnote 77: _Bewussten_, that is a symbolism conscious of its typical character. I have above used the expression "premeditated," but "conscious" is perhaps sufficient.]
[Footnote 78: I understand _auf solche Weise,_ "under such a mode as expressed either by Symbolism or the Sublime."]
[Footnote 79: It is prosaic because it has no absolute root in reality.]
[Footnote 80: Lit., "As consciousness lays hold of the same in the clear light of ordinary reason" (_seiner verständigen Klarheit._)]
[Footnote 81: _Theoretische_, that is personal, contemplative rather than practical.]
[Footnote 82: Lit., "and his freedom secludes itself with a prophetic instinct (_ahndend_) in itself."]
[Footnote 83: _Wie die Faust auf das Auge passt._ A proverbial expression unknown to me. We should rather say "a beam in our eyes."]
[Footnote 84: As contrasted, that is, with the fable.]