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if you please the Beginning which nobody 

 ever saw, or can see with eyesight and sun- 

 light, which is nevertheless to be reached 

 somehow by the microscope in one of its spe- 

 cial applications. It were well if the observer 

 would oftener turn his vision within and ex- 

 amine these categories of the mind which he 

 has to use far more than his microscope. For 

 not only does he express himself by them, but 

 he thinks by them, yea, sees by them or pos- 

 sibly does not see. That microscope which he 

 uses does not exist in nature but is a thought 

 realized through evolution, for the microscope 

 also has its history, and he has to learn care- 

 fully how to employ it, otherwise it may fool 

 him, as he well knows. Such is his chief 

 outer weapon ; but his Psyche is full of inner 

 weapons, a grand armory of categories given 

 him by heredity and culture, which he had 

 better study a little, else they may deceive 

 him worse than his eye or his eye-glass. The 

 difficulty is that the much-defamed Philoso- 

 phy is in its deepest purport just the study 

 of these categories of thought, which man 

 has made and precipitated into human speech 

 quite from its origin. The two supreme books 

 of abstract Thought or Philosophy are doubt- 

 less Aristotle's Metaphysics and Hegel's 

 Logic; both these ultimate thinkers of the 

 ultimate turn their inner mental microscope 



