The process of the living being with itself is this same premise, but in so far as the premise is also the conclusion, in so far as the immediate reference of the subject to the objectivity, by virtue of which the latter becomes means and instrument, is at the same time the negative unity of the concept within itself, the purpose realizes itself in this externality by being the subjective power over it and the process in which the externality displays its self dissolution and its return into this negative unity of the purpose.