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persistent thought is a striving thought and mediates the law and its pure concept.
80. An excessively large servitude toward the bodily organs would be dangerous to earthly existence. The spirit in its current state would make destructive use of it. A certain density of the organ prevents the mind from excessively arbitrary activity, and provokes it toward regulated cooperation, which is appropriate for the earthly world. It is an imperfect state of affairs in itself that this relationship binds the spirit too exclusively to this world. Therefore it is terminated according to the its principle.
81. Jurisprudence corresponds to physiology, Morality to psychology. The laws of reason regarding jurisprudence and moral theory, when transformed into natural laws, give the principles of physiology and psychology.
82. Flight of public spirit is death.
83. In most religious systems we are regarded as organs of the divinity which, when they do not respond to the impulsions of the whole, even if they do not deliberately operate against the laws of the whole but only go their own want as they don't want to be members, will be medically treated by the divinity and be painfully healed or even cutoff.
84. Each specific incitation discloses a specific meaning. The newer it is, the more unpolished, but all the more stronger; the more precise, the more polished, the more multifaceted it becomes, all the more weaker. In this way, the first thought of God aroused an extreme emotion in the whole individual; thus, the first idea of philosophy, of humanity, the universe, etc.
85. The most intimate community of all knowledge, the scientific republic, is the great aim of the learned.
