Formalism in the case of speculative Philosophy of Nature (Naturphilosophie) takes the shape of teaching that understanding is electricity, animals are nitrogen, or equivalent to South or North and so on. When it does this, whether as badly as it is here expressed or even concocted with more terminology, such forceful procedure brings and holds together elements to all appearance far removed from one another; the violence done to stable inert sense-elements by connecting them in this way, confers on them merely the semblance of a conceptual unity, and spares itself the trouble of doing what is after all the important thing-expressing the notion itself, the meaning that underlies sense-ideas. All this sort of thing may strike anyone who has no experience with admiration and wonder.
Natur filosofiaren formalismoak irakasten badu, adibidez, adimena elektrizitatea dela edo animalia nitrogenoa dela, edo baita hegoa edo iparra eta abar ere badela, edo hori errepresentatzen badu, hemen adierazten den bezain gordinki, edo terminologia gehiagoz jantzita, bada, orduan esperientzia falta harridura miresle batean geratuko da itxuraz oso urrun daudenak elkartzen dituen indarraren aurrean, eta lotura horren bidez sentipenezko-den lasaiak jasaten duen bortxaren aurrean, horri horrela adigai baten itxura ematen dion, baina gauza nagusia egiten ez duen lotura, hots, adigaia bera edo sentipenezko errepresentazioaren esanahia adieraztea, bada, esperientzia faltak hori jenio baten ekarpen gisa gurtu dezake, edo halako determinazioen argitasuna dela eta poz daiteke, adigai abstraktua begiesten denaz ordezkatzen duenez eta atseginago bihurtzen duenez, eta egite loriatsu horrekin susmatutako arimakidetasuna dela eta bere burua zoriondu dezake.