It is thus that consciousness takes as the middle term between universal spirit and its individuation or sense-consciousness, the system of shapes assumed by consciousness, as an orderly self-constituted whole of the life of spirit, the system of forms of conscious life which is dealt with in this treatise, and which finds its objective existential expression as the history of the world.
Horrela, kontzientziak erdiko premisa gisa kontzientziaren tankeratzeen sistema dauka, gogo orokorraren eta bere banakotasunaren edo sentipenezko kontzientziaren artean, osokian ordenatzen den gogoaren bizitza gisa; hori da hemen aztertzen ari garen sistema eta bere hor-izate objektiboa munduaren historia gisa duena.