In Short, Intelligence, Considered In What Seems

When We Make The Cerebral State The Beginning Of An Action, And In No Sense The Condition Of A Perception, We Place The Perceived Images Of Things Outside The Image Of Our Body, And Thus Replace Perception Within The Things Themselves.

In Just The Same Way The Thousands Of Successive Positions Of A Runner Are Contracted Into One Sole Symbolic Attitude, Which Our Eye Perceives, Which Art Reproduces, And Which Becomes For Everyone The Image Of A Man Who Runs.

We Regard Intelligence As Man's Main Characteristic And We Know That There Is No Superiority Which Intelligence Cannot Confer On Us, No Inferiority For Which It Cannot Compensate.

It Is The Very Essence Of Intelligence To Coordinate Means With A View To A Remote End, And To Undertake What It Does Not Feel Absolutely Sure Of Carrying Out.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.