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Today, for good reasons, it is not the fashion for thinkers to boldly attempt to explain everything. It is rare to come across someone with a system claiming to explain The Law, the Empire, the mob of today and the hordes of the dead from which they emerge. When he is mentioned the Empire’s school-teachers today proclaim the 19th C. school-teacher Hegel as the last and best to try his hand at it.

Despite seemingly & significantly glaring absences in his myth explaining the history of man and God, the prophetic madness necessary to tackle this project demands our recognition. Respec’ and happy birthday Mr. Hegel.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born 27 August, 1770; died 14 November, 1831); pictured above in an 1829 drawing by Friedrich Hensel, in the collection of the Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz

‘The genus is therefore present in the individual as a straining against the inadequacy of its single actuality, as the urge to obtain its self-feeling in the other of its genus, to integrate itself through union with it and through this mediation to close the genus with itself and bring it into existence — copulation.’

—G.W.F. Hegel, in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature (a collection of texts on the subject of nature written by Hegel at different periods in his career)

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