For since itself maintains itself in relation to another, it is just that kind of natural existence in which nature reflects itself into the notion, and the moments of necessity separated out [by Understanding]-a cause and an effect, an active and a passive-are here brought together and combined into a single unity. In this way we have here not only something appearing as a result of necessity, but, because it has returned to itself, the last or the result is just as much the first which starts the process, and is to itself the purpose which it realizes.
izan ere, beste batekin harremanean bere burua man tentzen duen heinean berezko zerizan hura da, non natura adigaian islatzen den eta kausa baten eta ondorio baten, ekile baten eta jasaile baten beharrezkotasunean sakabanatutako uneak batean elkar hartzen dituen; halako moldez non hemen zerbait ez baita agertzen beharrezkotasunaren emaitza gisa; baizik eta, bere baitara itzuli denez, azkena dena edo emaitza era berean lehena da, higidura abiarazten duena, eta hori hark egikaritzen duen xedea.