CHAPTEE VI. 



PEINCIPLES OF UNIVEESAL SYNTHESIS. 



WE have now completed our descending view of the realm 

 of Being without us, and traced the material creation to its 

 super-material hence spiritual hence Divine, Cause. The 

 completion of this general analysis unfolds to us the true basis 

 of all synthesis ; and, keeping in view the Spirituality, Self- 

 existence, and Divinity of the Original Cause, we may now 

 proceed to inquire, what may be known, or legitimately 

 believed, in relation to the origin, modus operandi, and govern- 

 ment of Matter and Motion, and of all the subsequently 

 established creations, systems, and kingdoms now comprised 

 in the general fabric of outer Being? 



I am aware, however, that many will be likely to consider 

 questions of this nature as too far above the sphere of the hu- 

 man intellect, to justify an attempt even at the most general 

 solution. But let us not be discouraged. It was intimated in 

 the outset of the present treatise, that nothing exists in the 

 realm of being WITHOUT man, which has not an antitype and 

 correspondent in the realm of being WITHIN him, and that all 

 which exists without, and all which exists within, possess 

 toward each other the relations of cognizable objects and 

 principles, and cognizing faculties. Besides, we have already 

 found reason to believe that Law is unvarying; and if so, it 

 may be traced in its operations, not only inversely from ulti- 

 mates to origins of creation's unfoldings, but also directly 



