12 THE COGNIZABLE AND THE COGNIZING. 



of cognizing faculties, the one being related to, and corre- 

 sponding with, the other. It is a legitimate object and privi- 

 lege of every inquiring mind to understand, in some degree, 

 both of these universes ; and in order to do this to the fullest 

 extent, one must investigate each with a constant regard to 

 its analogies with, and relations to, the other. For the pur- 

 pose of mapping out, if possible, certain great outlines of 

 the one united and harmonious system of truth as embracing 

 both of these departments, an investigation of this kind is 

 now proposed. 



The forms of the outer universe are included in a few sim- 

 ple and comprehensive classifications, as they are arranged 

 above or beneath each other in the scale of creation. Those 

 beneath man, and which at present form the special subject 

 of investigation, are embraced in the comprehensive divisions 

 of animal, vegetable, mineral, geological, and astronomical or 

 cosmical forms. Of these, singularly and in united groups, 

 together with their more superficial properties, the interior 

 soul gains a perception through some one or more of the 

 sensational channels, known as Touch, Taste, Sight, Hearing, 

 and Smell. Proceeding upon the basis of the impressions 

 received through these avenues of sense, the ratiocinative 

 faculty becomes the medium of some knowledge of the pur- 

 poses and mutual relations of these, and of the laws by which 

 they are governed ; and, availing itself of the contributions of 

 both Sense and Reason, at the same time that it draws, from 

 its own interior and independent resources, the faculty of 

 Intuition decides upon their causes, their life forces, and their 

 more interior significations. 



Conforming, therefore, to what, in this work, will be recog- 

 nized as the true method of reasoning, it shall be our first 



