It is not the crystal, belonging as we saw to the level of understanding, a form which housed and covered a lifeless element, or is shone upon externally by a soul. Nor, again, is it that commingling of the forms of nature and thought, which first arose in connexion with plants, thought's activity here being still an imitation.
Ez da beira adigarria, hilda dagoenaren egoitza dena, edo kanpoko arimak argitzen duena, ezta landaretik lehenik sortzen den nahasketa ere, naturaren eta pentsamenduaren formena, zeinaren egiletasuna hemen oraindik ere imitazioa den.