the eye is adapted to the light and its refrangibility, the lungs and the blood to the air, the air-bladder of fish to water, the eye of the seal to the change of the medium in which it must see, the water-pouch in the stomach of the camel to the drought of the African deserts, the sail of the nautilus to the wind that is to drive its little bark, and so on down to the most special and astonishing outward adaptations.(40) We must abstract however here from all temporal relations, for these can only concern the manifestation of the Idea, not the Idea itself.
begia moldaturik dago argira eta bere errefrakziora, birika eta odola airera, igeriketa-puxika uretara, itsas txakurraren begia bere ingurunearen aldaketara, ganbeluaren urdaileko zelula ur-edukitzaileak afrikar basamortuetako lehortera, nautiluen bela haizera, zeinak bere ontzitxoari bultza egiten baitio, eta horrela kanpoko helburuzkotasun berezi eta txundigarrienetara iritsi arte. Alabaina, honetan guztian denbora-harreman guztietatik abstrahitu beharra dago, zeren horrek ideiaren agerpenarekin baitauka zerikusia, ez ideiarekin berarekin.