When Hegel published this notorious line in the Philosophy of Right, readers suspected him of Prussian apologism.2 Was he saying that nothing could surpass the actual political state in whose employ Hegel was? Readers of the SL knew different. This was only Hegel's way of saying there is no unreachable, transcendental beyond.3 Essence must appear. What is "in itself (implicit) must become "for itself (express). "When being posits its entire inwardness [i.e., essence] outside itself, it becomes actual."4