and it is man who, by humanizing and spiritualizing Nature by his industry, supernaturalizes her. In two amazing sonnets which he called Redemption, the tragic Portuguese poet, Antero de Quental, embodied his dream of a spirit imprisoned, not in atoms or ions or crystals, but-as is natural in a poet-in the sea, in trees, in the forest, in the mountains, in the wind, in all material individualities and forms; and he imagines that a day may come when all these captive souls, as yet in the limbo of existence, will awaken to consciousness, and, emerging as pure thought from the forms that imprisoned them, they will see these forms, the creatures of illusion, fall away and dissolve like a baseless vision.
Antero de Quental portugaldar poeta tragikoak, Berrerospena izenburua jarri zien hamalaurkun bikain bitan, amets egin zuen badela izpiritu preso bat, ez jadanik atomo, ioi edo kristaletan, baizik eta-poetari dagokionez-itsasoan, zuhaitzetan, oihanean, mendian, haizean, materiazko banakotasun eta forma guztietan, eta egunen batez arima horiek guztiok, oraindik existentziaren linboan direnak, kontzientzian itzartuko direla, eta pentsamendu huts gisa gora hegaldatuz, handik itxurak, ilusioaren umeak, deseginik erortzen ikusiko dituztela, amets faun gisa.