What there appears as ordinance and harmony between both its constituent elements, each of which confirms and complements the other, becomes through the performing of an act a transition of opposites into one another, by which each proves to be the annihilation rather than the confirmation of its self and its opposite. It becomes the process of negation or destruction, the eternal necessity of awful destiny, which engulfs in the abyss of its bare identity divine and human law alike, as well as both the self-conscious factors in which these powers subsist; and, to our view, passes over into the absolute self-existence of mere single self-consciousness.
Mundu horretan bere bi zerizanek daukaten ordena eta adostasuna bezala agertzen dena, batak bestea egiaztatzen eta osatzen duela, egintzaren bitartez aurkakoen igarobide bat bihurtzen da, non bakoitza bere buruaren eta bestearen ezereztasun gisa agertzen den, baieztapen gisa baino; patu beldurgarriaren higidura negatibo edo amaigabeko beharrezkotasun bihurtzen da, zeinak jainkotiar eta giza legea eta, era berean, bi autokontzientziak, non botere horiek euren hor-izatea lortzen duten, bere sinpletasunaren amildegian irensten dituen, eta guretzat banakoa baino ez den autokontzientziaren berbaitarako izate absolutura igarotzen da.