The original determinateness of the nature is, therefore, only a simple principle, a transparent universal element, in which the individuality remains as free and self identical as it is unirnpeded in unfolding its different moments, and in its realization is simply in a reciprocal relation with itself; just as in the case of indeterminate animal life, which breathes the breath oflife, let us say, into the element of water, or air or earth, and within these again into more specific principles, steeping its entire nature in them, and yet keeping that nature under its own control, and preservingitselfas a unity, in spi te of the limitation iItJposed by the element, and remaining in the farm of this particul'ilr organization the saIne general animal life.