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>>11242009
>If we are still tempted to ask what [Hegel's] God is in itself [an sich], we should have to answer that it is what it does, and that what it does is timelessly do away with the illusion that it has not yet accomplished it. "The Good," Hegel says, "the absolutely Good, is eternally accomplishing itself in the world; and the result is that it needs not wait upon us [qua individuals, in whose ascent the vision of the whole is still obscured by finite perspectives],… but is already by implication, as well as in full actuality, accomplished." This last "consolidating, quietistic" step that Hegel takes, is, in the words of Professor Findlay, "one which achieves its goal by suddenly coming to see its goal in what previously seemed only an infinite, hopeless struggle towards it."