If we consider the appearance of a claim like this in its more general setting, and look at the level which the self-conscious mind at present occupies, we shall find that self-consciousness has got beyond the substantial fullness of life, which it used to carry on in the element of thought-beyond the state of immediacy of belief, beyond the satisfaction and security arising from the assurance which consciousness possessed of being reconciled with ultimate reality and with its all. pervading presence, within as well as without.
Horrelako eskakizun baten agerpena bere testuinguru orokorraren arabera ulertzen bada, eta egun norberaren buruaz jabetzen den gogoak hartzen duen mailari begiratzen bazaio, orduan hori pentsamenduaren barne daraman bizitza substantzialaz haraindi dago, bere sinestearen bitartegabekotasunaz haraindi, kontzientziak zerizanaren eta bere barne eta kanpoko orainaldiarekin berradiskidetzeaz zuen ziurtasunaren asegarritasun eta segurtasunaz haraindi.