visibility would rather, on the basis of this explanation, give way to invisibility. The whole

conception reduces to an absurdity, somewhat like the conception of a concrete body which is

presumed to consist of many substances, with each existing in the pores of the other, in which,

conversely, the others exist and circulate. Through this comprehensive penetration the assumption

of the discrete materiality of the supposedly real substances is destroyed, and an entirely ideal

The self-like nature of light, insofar as it vitalises natural things, individualises them, and strengthens

and holds together their unfolding, first becomes manifest in the individualisation of matter, for the

initially abstract identity is only as return and suspension of particularity the negative unity of