Or, again, if knowledge is not an instrument which we actively employ, but a kind of passive medium through which the light of the truth reaches us, then here, too, we do not receive it as it is in itself. but as it is through and in this medium.
Edo ezagutza ez bada gure ekimenaren lantresna, baizik eta neurri batean baliabide pasiboa, zeinaren bidez egiaren argia guregana iristen den, orduan hori ez dugu bere baitan den gisara jasotzen, baizik eta baliabide horren bitartez eta bertan den gisara.