Note 8 — PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
A. J. W. (Alexander James William) Morrison translation
Schlegel is alluding to those systems which suppose a primary and original essence, which, by its successive spontaneous developments, produce every thing else out of itself. This absolute original of all things was by Schelling, after Spinosa, called natura naturans, while, by a phraseology which happily indicates the identity of the self-developing subject and its objective developments, the totality of the objects derived from it are termed natura naturata.—Trans.