The ear, on the contrary, receives the result of that ideal vibration of material substance, without placing itself in a practical relation towards the objects, a result by means of which it is no longer the material object in its repose, but the first example of the more ideal activity of the soul'' itself which is apprehended The question of the analogy would thus lead us back to the notion of trembling, which seems to us decisive in Hegel's Aesthetics in that it opens the passage to ideality.