Proceeding from ourselves, from our own human consciousness, the only consciousness which we feel from within and in which feeling is identical with being, we attribute some sort of consciousness, more or less dim, to all living things, and even to the stones themselves, for they also live.
Geure baitatik, giza kontzientzia propiotik jautsiz, hau barrutik sentitzen dugun bakarra izanik, hor nork bera sentitzea nor bera izatearekin identifikatzen baita, bizidun guztiek nolabaiteko kontzientzia, ilunago edo argiagoa, dutela susmatzen dugu, eta arrokek berek ere bai, hauek ere bizi dira eta.