His confession is not an abasement, a humiliation, a throwing away of himself in rela!ion to the other; for this utterance is not a one sided affair, which would establish his disparity with the other: on the contrary, he gives himself utterance solely on account of his having seen his identity with the other; he, on his side, gives expression to their common identity in his confession, and gives utterance to it for thereason that language is the existence ofSpirit as an immediate self.