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1 Intro| negative as well as the positive idea had sunk deep into 2 Intro| Not-being as of Being. To every positive idea—‘just,’ ‘beautiful,’ 3 Intro| altogether annihilate the positive meaning of the word ‘just’: 4 Intro| passed into an undefined positive. To say that ‘not-just’ 5 Intro| cannot be separated from the positive, and ‘Being’ and ‘Not-being’ 6 Intro| because he is not. Besides the positive class to which he belongs, 7 Intro| mere modification of the positive, as in the example of ‘not 8 Intro| negative there is also a positive element, and that oppositions 9 Intro| alike lost in a higher or positive infinity, and the absolute 10 Intro| that every negative is a positive, that differences of kind 11 Intro| absolutely at rest. But the positive had its negative, the conception