"...In this account of Philosophy we at once see what the so much talked of Ideas of Plato are. The Idea is nothing else than that which is known to us more famil-iarly by the name of the Universal regarded however not as the formal Universal which is only a property of things but as implicitly and explicitly existent as reali-ty as that which alone is true. We translate εἶδος first of all as species or kind; and the Idea is no doubt the spe-cies but rather as it is apprehended by and exists for Thought. Of course when we understand by species nothing but the gathering together by our reflection and for convenience sake of the like characteristics of several individuals as indicating their distinguishing features we have the universal in quite an external form..."