The Nationals are in the right; one cannot deny his nationality: and the humanitarians are in the right; one must not remain in the narrowness of the national. In uniqueness256 the contradiction is solved; the national is my quality. But I am not swallowed up in my quality—as the human too is my quality, but I give to man his existence first through my uniqueness. History seeks for Man: but he is I, you, we. Sought as a mysterious essence, as the divine, first as God, then as Man (humanity, humaneness, and mankind), he is found as the individual, the finite, the unique one. I am owner of
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