This enemy, however) renews himself in his defeat, and consciousness, in fixing its attention on him, farfrom freeing itselffrom him, really remains for ever in contact with him, and for ever sees itself as defiled; and, since at the same time this object of its efforts, instead of being something essential, is of the meanest character, instead ofbeing a universal, is the merest particular, we have here only a personality confined to its own self and its own petty actions, a personality brooding over itself, as wretched as it is impo verished.