The transition to another province of the forms of art is closely united with this externality and articulate definition. For under the mode of externality reposes the manifold of the finite condition; a manifold which, so soon as it secures a free field, asserts itself finally in opposition to the spiritual Idea, its universality and truth, and begins to rouse up the dissatisfaction of thought in a reality which is no longer adequate to express it.
[Footnote 181: I presume this is the sense of that difficult word _des Inneren_ here.]
[Footnote 182: By "absolute" I presume Hegel means here absolute in the sense of predominant, masterful--activity such as the Greek artist possessed.]
[Footnote 185: "Odyssey," XXIV, vv. 41-63.]
[Footnote 187: _Bestimmte sittliche Substanz._]
[Footnote 190: I presume this refers to some drapery or curtains round the bust as exhibited.]
[Footnote 191: This is the meaning of _Heiterkeit_ here rather than "cheerfulness," though _Seligkeit_ is the usual word.]
[Footnote 192: _Göttliche Universum._ A rather curious expression for, I presume, the ideal totality of the Divine Being.]
[Footnote 193: _Der geistigen absoluten Innerlichkeit._ Lit., "the spiritual and absolute mode of the inward life." He refers, of course, to Christianity, with its life of the pure in heart and the pure reason.]
[Footnote 195: "Iliad," XVI, vv. 783-849.]
[Footnote 196: I very much doubt whether the words _Sondern das Gerede allein_ can have this meaning, but the obvious meaning, "but only the gossip," hardly makes sense. I think the sentence requires revision.]
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CLASSICAL TYPE OF ART
The gods of classical art contain in themselves the germ of their overthrow; consequently, when this fatal defect which they include is brought to consciousness through the elaboration of art itself, they bring about the dissolution of the classical Ideal at the same time. We established as the principle of this, so far as we have here to deal with it, that kind of spiritual individuality which secures in every respect an adequate expression in bodily or external existence immediate to our senses. This individuality was enclosed within a complex of divine personalities, whose definition is not essentially and withal from the first given up to the contingent condition in which the everlasting gods receive the appearance of dissolution for man's conscious life no less than for his artistic creation.