AND ITS SELF-CONSERVATION. 287 



For any special fact or phase of the world can be truly 

 comprehended only when viewed in its relations. And 

 the wider the range of relations included in the view, the 

 more adequate the judgment formed of the fact or phase 

 of existence upon which the view is directed. And thus 

 again do we reach a conclusion already indicated in the 

 progress of this inquiry: That each special fact or phase 

 of existence is itself, thus far, the manifestation of the 

 universality involved in the World-Energy. So that each 

 and every fact or phase of existence thus presents the 

 characteristic of universality in its very nature. It is, 

 indeed, only through its possessing such degree of uni- 

 versality that it can so much as exist at all. 



But the point of supreme significance here is that at 

 the stage we have now reached the phase of universality 

 everywhere appears as characterized by explicit sub- 

 jectivity. The Universal is the Soul of things. But it is 

 to be observed further that, as already proven, the ulti- 

 mate truth of subjectivity is shown in its unfolding itself 

 as an absolute process of self -objectifi cation ; that is, once 

 more, in a process of self-particularization. Whence its 

 infinitely varied discrete forms are characterized by 

 measureless elasticity and that aspect of concrete con- 

 tinuity by which such forms undergo transmutation, the 

 one into the other. There is no absolute line of separa- 

 tion between individual fact and individual fact, between 

 species and species, nor even between the physical and 

 the spiritual aspects of existence. The physical would 

 have no meaning, or rather it could have no existence, 

 apart from the spiritual; just as, on the other hand, the 

 spiritual, in its character of spontaneity as concrete 

 process of self-realization, necessarily develops, along 



