But the ethical Idea, without sllch unfortllnate collisions and the downfall of the individuals caught up in this misfortune, is actual and present in the ethical world; and that this highest of things should not appear insignificant in its actuality is what the real ethical existence Eristenz the state, takes as its end and puts into effect, and what the ethical self consciousness possesses, intuits, and knows, and thinking cognition comprehends, in the state.