That way of thinking that clings to the determinations of reflective relations and of the formal concept, when it comes to consider life, the unity of its concept in the externality of objectivity, the absolute multiplicity of atomistic matter, finds that all its thoughts are absolutely of no avail; the omnipresence of the simple in the manifold externality is for reflection an absolute contradiction and also, since it cannot at the same time avoid witnessing this omnipresence in the perception of life and must therefore grant the actuality of this idea, an incomprehensible mystery for reflection does not grasp the concept, nor does it grasp it as the substance of life.