As the objects of genius are the eternal Ideas, the permanent, essential forms of the world and all its phenomena, and as the knowledge of the Idea is necessarily knowledge through perception, is not abstract, the knowledge of the genius would be limited to the Ideas of the objects actually present to his person, and dependent upon the chain of circumstances that brought these objects to him, if his imagination did not extend his horizon far beyond the limits of his actual personal existence, and thus enable him to construct the whole out of the little that comes into his own actual apperception, and so to let almost all possible scenes of life pass before him in his own consciousness.
Genioaren objektuak, horrelakoarenak diren heinean, ideia betikoak, munduaren eta haren agerpen guztien forma esentzial iraunkorrak direlarik, ideiaren ezagutza ordea derrigor begiesgarria, ez abstraktua delarik; horrela genioaren ezagutza mugaturik legoke bere pertsonak errealki aurrean dituen eta horretara gidatzen duten zirkunstantzien kateakuntzarekiko dependenteak diren objektuen ideietara, baldin eta fantasiak ez balio bere esperientzia pertsonalaren errealitateaz gainetik horizontea hedatuko eta bere apertzepzio errealera etorri den gutxiaz gainerako guztia eraikitzeko egoeran jarriz, eta horrela ia bizi-irudi ahalgarri guztiak bere aurretik pasaraziz.