The fulfilment of Spirit therefore requires the growth of a community which will fully express and embody reason. And since spirit posits the world of space and time in order to realize itself, this fulfilment and hence also the community of reason can be considered the goal of history. This is how Hegel speaks of it in Reason in History:

In this passage, both sides of the goal of spirit in history are expressed: spirit is trying to come to an understanding, a knowledge of self. But in order to do this it must bring into existence a reality, a spiritual community which must also be a real community (the ‘geistige Welt’ must be embodied in a ‘Staat’) which is adequate to its concept. Or again:

Thus history is to be understood teleologically as directed in order to realize Geist. What happens in history has sense, justification, indeed, the highest justification.