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duce, it is to be inferred that these forces, when existing 

 out of consciousness, are of the same intrinsic nature as 

 when existing in consciousness; and that so is justified the 

 spiritualistic conception of the external world, as consisting 

 of something essentially identical with what we call mind. 

 Manifestly, the establishment of correlation and equivalence 

 between the forces of the outer and the inner worlds, may 

 be used to assimilate either to the other; according as we 

 set out with one or other term. But he who rightly inter- 

 prets the doctrine contained in this work, will see that 

 neither of these terms can be taken as ultimate. He will 

 see that though the relation of subject and object renders 

 necessary to us these antithetical conceptions of Spirit and 

 Matter; the one is no less than the other to be regarded as 

 but a sign of the Unknown Eeality which underlies both. 



