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671 sharp contrast be allowed, also the unreason in things, or rather that things must be made to conform to a higher reason. Such reconstruction, made possible indeed by the thought of Hegel, inevitably implies that Hegel's conception of the state and freedom is not final. Hegel has bequeathed to his successors, it is true, the task of interpreting him, as he said, but he has bequeathed to them also the task of reinterpreting and reconstructing reality in the light of ideas which, though not his, would not, but for him, have been theirs.