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judged, rests upon the spontaneous character of the 

 organising cognition as a source, not upon what hap- 

 pen to be the contents to which, for brevity's sake, 

 we have thus far confined our attention in making 

 out the fact of this spontaneous mental Hfe, The 

 truth is, our a priori cognition is not confined to 

 these conditions of mere perception ; it goes, on the 

 contrary, and with still clearer evidence, to the region 

 of our guiding ideals — to the True, to the Beautiful, 

 to the Good. These all-controlling ideals are not 

 only the goal of the sense-perceptive or experiencing 

 spirit, but are actively constituent in the soul's 

 primary being. The same reasoning that leads us 

 to conclude Time, Space, and Causation, the con- 

 ditions of sense-perceptive life, to be structural in 

 our active primal being, leads quite as unavoidably, 

 and more directly, to the higher conclusion that the 

 three ideals are also structural in it, and still more 

 profoundly. By their very ideality they conclusively 

 refer themselves to our spontaneous life : nothing 

 ideal can be derived from experience, just as nothing 

 experimental is ever ideal. 



The worth-imparting ideals, then, are, by virtue of 

 the active and indivisible unity of our person, in an 

 elemental and inseparable union with the root-princi- 

 ples of our perceptive life. Proof of our indestructi- 

 ble sourcefulness for such percipient life is therefore 

 ipso facto proof that these ideals will reign everlast- 



