The sense of the sublime here arises through the consciousness of the vanishing nothingness of our own body in the presence of a vastness which, from another point of view, itself exists only in our idea, and of which we are as knowing subject, the supporter. Thus here as everywhere it arises from the contrast between the insignificance and dependence of ourselves as individuals, as phenomena of will, and the consciousness of ourselves as pure subject of knowing.
Bikainaren sentimendua hemen gure soin propioaren ezereztasun hutsalaz handiera baten aurrean ohartzetik sortzen da, zeina beste alde batetik gure errepresentazioan baitago, eta zeinaren euskarri geu baikara subjektu ezagutzaile gisa, horrela hemen eta edonon gure norbanako propioaren zentzugabeziaren eta dependentziaren, nahimen-agerpen gisa, eta ezagutzaren subjektu huts gisa gure niaren kontzientziaren arteko kontraste bezala.