258 CONCLUSION. 



ditions of individuals, can be intelligibly illustrated only 

 in view of certain psychological and spiritual laws, which 

 will form the themqs of appropriate remark when we w pro 

 ceed to the consideration of the Microcosm, or the universe 

 within. 



CONCLUSION OF THE VOLUME. 



We have thus endeavored to exhibit a general view of the 

 various Series and Degrees of systematic creation which com- 

 pose the aggregate of the outer realm of being both in their 

 separate and united capacities, together with their relations to 

 each other and to their common Divine Cause and Governor. 

 We close this first part of our treatise with the following re- 

 marks : 



1. If our Philosophy, as to its distinctive features, contains 

 no truth, it can at least do no essential evil, as it must be that 

 a system of unmitigated error, of so bold and conspicuous a 

 kind, and put forth in this unguarded manner, would exhibit 

 so many vulnerable points as to meet with its death wound 

 the instant it is exposed to the shafts of criticism. If it should 

 be entirely overthrown, however, there would still necessarily 

 remain some possible mode of systematizing and harmonizing 

 Nature and Truth in one general philosophic view, if it so be 

 that Nature and Truth are intrinsically systematic and har- 

 monious ; and the discovery of this mode is worthy of the 

 highest efforts of philosophic minds. I would respectfully sub- 

 mit, however, that promise of a discovery of this kind, can 

 only be given by some such process of serial, gradational, and 

 correspondential reasoning from interiors to exteriors, as has 

 been pursued in the foregoing pages; and that so long as 

 men confine themselves to the ordinary processes of reason- 

 ing merely from effects to causes, so long their conclusions 



