The hitherto infallible certainty and regularity with which it worked in unorganised and merely vegetative nature, rested upon the fact that it alone was active in its original nature, as blind impulse, will, without assistance, and also without interruption, from a second and entirely different world, the world as idea, which is indeed only the image of its own inner being, but is yet of quite another nature, and now encroaches on the connected whole of its phenomena.
Orain arteko ziurtasun eta erregulartasun hutsezina, zeinarekin natura inorganiko eta begetatibo soilean eragiten baitzuen, honetan oinarritzen zen: bere esentzia jatorrizkoan bakarrik oldar itsu nahimen gisa jardutean, bigarren mundu zeharo bestelako baten laguntzarik gabe, baina baita haren nahasturarik gabe ere, mundura errepresentazio gisa, zeina egiaz bere esentziaren errainua bakarrik, baina zeharo beste izaera batekoa baita eta orain bere agerpenen kohesioan esku hartzen baitu.