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CHAPTER XXIV. 

 OF THE REMAINING LAWS OF NATURE. 



1 . IN the First Book we found that all the assertions 

 which can be conveyed by language, express some one 

 or more of five different things ; Existence ; Order 

 in Place ; Order in Time ; Causation ; and Resem- 

 blance*. Of these, Causation, in our view of the sub- 

 ject, not being fundamentally different from Order in 

 Time, the five species of possible assertions are 

 reduced to four. The propositions which affirm Order 

 in Time, in either of its two modes, Coexistence and 

 Succession, have formed, thus far, the subject of the 

 present Book. And we have now concluded the expo- 

 sition, so far as it falls within the limits assigned to 

 this work, of the nature of the evidence on which 

 these propositions rest, and the processes of investiga- 

 tion by which they are discovered and proved, There 

 remain three classes of facts : Existence, Order in 

 Place, and Resemblance ; in regard to which the same 

 questions are now to be resolved. 



Regarding the first of these, very little needs be 

 said. Existence in general, is a subject not for our 

 science, but for the higher metaphysics. To deter- 

 mine what things can be recognized as really existing, 

 independently of our own sensible or other impres- 

 sions, and in what meaning the term is, in that case, 

 predicated of them, belongs to the consideration of 

 t{ Things in themselves," from which, throughout this 

 work, we have as much as possible kept aloof. Exist- 

 ence, so far as Logic is concerned about it, has refer- 



Supra, vol. i., p. 139. 



