moments subsisting each on its own account. Force as such, force as driven back within itself, is in this way by itself an excluding unit, for which the unfolding of the elements or differences is another thing subsisting separately ; and thus there are set up two sides, distinct and independent. But force is also the whole, or it remains what, in its very conception, it is ; that is to say, these differences remain mere forms, superficial vanishing " moments. differences between force proper, withdrawn into itself, and force unfolded and expressed in independent constituent elements, would at the same time have no being at all if they had no subsistence ; i.e. force would have no being if it did not really exist in these opposite ways. But to exist in this way as opposite aspects means nothing else than that both moments are themselves at the same time independent. It is this process we have now to deal with -- the process by which both moments get themselves fixed as independent and then cancel their independence again. Looked at broadly, it is manifest that this process is nothing else than the process of perceiving, where the aspects, both percipient and content perceived, are at once inseparably united as regards the process of grasping the truth, and yet, by that very fact, each aspect is at the same time reflected into itself, is something on its own account. In the present case these two aspects are elements or moments of force ; they subsist within one unity, just as much as this unity, which appears as the middle term for the distinct and independent extremes, always gets broken up into these very extremes, which only become such through this taking place. Thus the process, which formerly took the shape of the self-negation of contradictory conceptions, here assumes objective form, and is a movement of force, the result of which is to bring out the " unconditioned universal " as something which is not objective -- which is the inner (unperceived) being of things. .^^ Force, as thus determined, since it is taken as force, or as reflected into itself, is the one side of its notion and meaning : but a substantiated extreme, and, moreover, the extreme established with the characteristic of oneness. In virtue of this, the subsistence of the elements which have arisen falls outside it, and is something other than it. Since of necessity it has to he this subsistence, i.e. to express, externaUse itself, its expression takes the form that the other approaches it and incites it. But,