If we abstract from all chemical differences in matter, or go so far back in the chain of causes and effects that as yet there is no chemical difference, there remains mere matter,-the world rounded to a globe, whose life, i.e., objectification of will, is now constituted by the conflict between attractive and repulsive forces, the former as gravitation pressing from all sides towards the centre, the latter as impenetrability always opposing the former either as rigidity or elasticity;
Baldin eta materiaren desberdintasun kimiko guztiak abstrahitzen baditugu edota kausa eta efektuen katea hain urruneraino pentsatzen badugu, non inolako diferentzia kimikorik ez baita existitzen; orduan materia soila, bola bihurturiko mundua, zeinaren bizitzak, h. d.