For in absolute freedom there was no reciprocal interaction either between an external world and consciousness, which is absorbed in manifold existence or sets itself determinate purposes and ideas, or between consciousness and an external objective world, be it a world of reality or of thought. What that freedom contained was the world absolutely in the form of consciousness, as a universal will, and, along with that, self-consciousness gathered out of all the dispersion and manifoldness of existence or all the manifold ends and judgments of mind, and concentrated into the bare and simple self.
-Baina askatasun absolutuan ez zegoen elkarrekintzarik, hor-izate anitzean hondoratuta dagoen edo helburu eta gogoeta jakinak finkatu dituen kontzientzian, ezta kanpoko (errealitatearen edo pentsatzearen) mundu baliodunean ere; baizik eta munduan kontzientziaren forman, nahimen orokor bezala, eta era berean hedatutako hor-izate guztietatik edo helburu eta judizio anitzetatik norbera sinplera bildutako autokontzientzian.