AND ITS SELF-CONSERVATION. 7 



There is then a universal ideal or type of intelligence 

 to which every particular intelligence, so far as it truly is 

 intelligence, must conform. Whence the limit of possible 

 development for each individual intelligence is nothing, 

 less or else than the total round of facts and relations 

 capable of being justified to such intelligence as an abso- 

 lutely rational world. 



And further, since the universal ideal of intelligence 

 as such is the true ideal of every individual intelligence 

 realized as a person, it would seem that if the individual 

 can ever trace out the fundamental characteristics of this 

 universal ideal or typical nature common to all intelli- 

 gences, he will, at the same time, trace out the funda- 

 mental nature of all that can ever appeal to reason of all, 

 therefore, that can be conceived as pertaining in any way 

 to a rational world. In other words, he will trace out the 

 fundamental system of the only knowable that is, the 

 only possible world. 



It appears, then, that all looking implies a looking 

 within ; all investigation, an investigation of self ; all 

 judging, a judging of that which pronounces judgment. 

 All seeing is double. Every act of the mind is two-fold. 

 It seizes upon a world beyond itself, and yet, in so doing, 

 identifies that world with itself ; or rather, in so doing, it 

 discovers an essential identity as already existing between 

 that world and itself. 



The ultimate range of consciousness is thus seen to be 

 commensurate with the total round of the rational world. 



d. SENSATION THE PRIMAKY PHASE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 



In any inquiry into the nature and limits of the exter- 

 nal world, then, it is essential, first of all, to consider the 



