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There is no want of a will to command moral actions, but of a will to perform them because commanded from within.

Morality is in the East likewise a subject of positive legislation, and although the moral prescriptions (the substance of their Ethics) may be perfect, what should be internal subjective sentiment is made a matter of external arrangement. I can be compelled to give up another manвЂ™s property, or to keep an agreement which I have made but the Moral is not placed by us in the mere compulsion, but in the disposition of the subjects вЂ“ their sympathy with the requirements of law. Our civil law contains indeed some purely compulsory ordinances. Justice is administered only on the basis of external morality, and Government exists only as the prerogative of compulsion. Nothing subjective in the shape of disposition, Conscience, formal Freedom, is recognized. Moral distinctions and requirements are expressed as Laws, but so that the subjective will is governed by these Laws as by an external force. We have the first example of a subjugation of the mere arbitrary will, which is merged in this substantiality. The Oriental World has as its inherent and distinctive principle the Substantial (the Prescriptive), in Morality. While the ante-historical is that which precedes political life, it also lies beyond self-cognizant life though surmises and suppositions may be entertained respecting that period, these do not amount to facts. The consciousness of external definite existence only arises in connection with the power to form abstract distinctions and assign abstract predicates and in proportion as a capacity for expressing Laws (of natural or social life) is acquired, in the same proportion does the ability manifest itself to comprehend objects in an unpoetical form. History is prose, and myths fall short of History. The diffusion of Language and the formation of races lie beyond the limits of History. We have to begin with the Oriental World, but not before the period in which we discover States in it. HegelвЂ™s Philosophy of History Part I: The Oriental World

Man arrested for selling elixir of immortality