Consciousness is honest when it has on the one hand attained to the idealism which the 'matter in hand' expresses, and on the other hand possesses the truth in it qua this formal universality; a consciousness which is concerned solely with the 'matter in hand' and thetefore busies itselfsolely with the various moments or, species of it; and when it does not attain the 'matter in hand' in one of these moments or in one meaning, it for that very reason gets hold of it in another.