The state is the actuality of the ethical Idea. It isethical mind qua the substantial will manifest and revealed to itself, knowingand thinking itself, accomplishing what it knows and in so far as it knows it.The state exists immediately in custom, mediately in individualself-consciousness, knowledge, and activity, while self-consciousness in virtueof its sentiment towards the state, finds in the state, as its essence and theend-product of its activity, its substantive freedom.