[145] "Sie als Inneres."
[146] i.e. an idea or purpose which gives these partial and defective representations all the meaning they have, although they are incapable of really expressing it.
[147] "Gährung," lit. "fermentation."
[148] "Der ursprüngliche Begriff," lit. "the original notion."
[149] i.e. God or the Universe invented man to be the expression of mind; art finds him, and adapts his shape to the artistic embodiment of mind as concentrated in individual instances.
[150] Because it represents the soul as independent of an appropriate body—the human soul as capable of existing in a beast's body.
[151] "Geistigkeit." "The nature of thought, mind, or spirit." It cannot be here rendered by mind or spirit, because these words make us think of an isolated individual, a mind or soul, and neglect the common spiritual or intellectual nature, which is referred to by the author.
[152] It is the essence of mind or thought not to have its parts outside one another. The so-called terms of a judgment are a good instance of parts in thought which are inward to each other.
[153] Compare Browning's "Old Pictures in Florence."
[154] i.e. in the form of feeling and imagination—not reflected upon.