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clarations of his own intellect, that such truths as these 

 are not agreed to by him out of sheer mental impotence 

 from mere inability to think the reverse but that they 

 are, on the contrary, truths which he apprehends actively, 

 and which he sees to be positively necessary and abso- 

 lutely universal, that they must be true in Sirius or the 

 Pleiades, and that they were as true when the first film 

 of mind laid the foundation of the Laurentian rocks. 

 Thus again, his mind is in another mode carried by its 

 own power and force out of the mere subjective and 

 phenomenal into the objective and noumenal region of 

 absolute external truth. 



Once more, this self-knowledge will force on each one 

 who investigates it, that his intellect has yet another 

 power ; namely, that proceeding by a peculiar logical pro- 

 cess (ratiocination) to draw forth explicitly truths im- 

 plicitly contained in other truths, but not fully apparent 

 till so drawn forth. When to the proposition, "All the 

 radii of one circle are equal," we add, " the lines A and 

 B are radii of one circle," we see that a third truth is 

 implicitly contained in these two propositions ; which truth 

 explicitly stated is the conclusion, " the lines A and B 

 are equal," and the force of the whole process of influence 

 is expressed by the word " therefore!' This process forms 

 yet another mode of arriving at real objective truth and 

 knowledge other than phenomenal, for we learn that such 

 lines as A and B must be equal everywhere and at all 



