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Hegel, G W F ⟨System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit⟩ 1979 p.231 Book Hegel Citations
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System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit

by Hegel, G W F (1979)

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The tool is that wherein laboring has its permanence, that which alone remains over from the laboring and the product of work, that wherein their contingency is eternalized. (p.231)

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