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'The main practical interest of Hegel's philosophy, he says, 'is to be found in the abstract certainty which the logic gives us that all reality is rational and righteous, even when we cannot see in the least how it is so.... Not that it shows us how the facts around us are good, not that it shows us how we can make them better, but that it proves that they, like other reality, are sub specie eternitatis, perfectly good, and sub specie temporis, destined to become perfectly good.
But the essence of man does not necessarily involve his separate existence as the essence of God implies Being. Of course the substance of man is imperishable because it is of God's substance. Nay, there is a sense in which each man, being an eternal thought of God, has an aspect towards eternity or exists "sub specie eternitatis."
Not an event, not a circumstance, not a detail, is carried out of "the daily round, the common task" of average English middle-class humanity, upper and lower. Yet every event, every circumstance, every detail, is put sub specie eternitatis by the sorcery of art.
Quâ absolute the world is one and perfect, quâ relative it is many and faulty, yet it is identically the self-same world instead of talking of it as many facts, we call it one fact in many aspects. As absolute, then, or sub specie eternitatis, or quatenus infinitus est, the world repels our sympathy because it has no history.
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