But perhaps it is always like that – they form their conceptions from imaginary conventional figures, and when they have made every possible combination of these, they tire of the conventional figures and begin to devise more natural and correct ones.'
Ma forse, accade sempre così: si costruiscono le proprie conceptions con figure convenzionali inventate, e poi, quando tutte le combinaisons sono tentate, e le figure inventate son venute a noia, allora si cominciano a inventare figure più vicine alla natura, al vero.