Now because this exposition has for its object only phenomenal knowledge, the exposition itself seems not to be science, free, self-moving in the shape proper to itself, but may, from this point of view, be taken as the pathway of the natural consciousness which is pressing forward to true knowledge. Or it can be regarded as the path of the soul, which is traversing the series of its own forms of embodiment, like stages appointed for it by its own nature. that it may possess the clearness of spiritual life when. through the complete experience of its own self. it arrives at the knowledge of what it is in itself.
Baina aurkezpen horren objektua agertzen den jakitea baino ez denez, orduan itxuraz ez da jakintza askea, bere tankera propioan higitzen den jakintza, baizik eta ikuspegi horretatik begiratuta egiazko jakiterantz bultzatzen duen berezko kontzientziaren bide gisa har daiteke, edo arimaren bide gisa, zeinak bere tankeren ilara zeharkatzen duen bere izaerak jartzen dizkion geldialdi gisa, horrela gogo izateraino araztuz, bere buruaren esperientzia osoaren bidez bere baitan den horren ezagutza lortzen duen heinean.