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law that forms and binds them is not physical, but biological, 

 constructed on the activity of impulse-systems arranged in 

 accordance with plan. 



We must clearly realise that, when we leave the balloon 

 that gave us a general view over the sensed-worlds of other 

 human beings, and yield our place to another observer, our 

 whole world with its heaven and stars shrinks together into 

 that little opaque saucer which, looking down from above, 

 we discovered in the case of all our fellow-men. 



But if we have once enjoyed the wide and universal view, 

 we shall carry away with us the conviction that aU the many 

 millions of animal and human worlds are in the control of a 

 great universal law, which governs in full conformity with 

 plan. It is true that we are able to recognise this law only 

 by the aid of the means at our disposal, in the shape of our 

 order- and content-qualities and the laws pertaining to these 

 (such as the law of regular increase), but, in employing this 

 means, we shall be obliged to recognise in Nature the pervading 

 conformity with plan. 



All worlds-as-sensed are composed solely of the relation 

 to their indicators that are attached by the subjects them- 

 selves. The nature and the number of these relations is 

 decisive for estimation of the individual worlds-as-sensed. 

 To illustrate the relations radiating on every side from the 

 subject, we may choose the image of a tree with branches 

 ramifying far and wide. The healthy tree will always be 

 sending out fresh twigs, while the sick tree loses one twig 

 after the other. 



It will then appear as the task of each man's life to develop ^ 

 his tree into full foliage and blossom. And it will also be 

 realised that even the tallest tree does not grow up to the sky, 

 and that there is an absolute limit to the world-as-sensed, 

 behind which the universe begins. Even the subject of a 

 man's neighbour lies on the far side of the boundary. 



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