EXPLAINS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 167 



recognize the organic relation of the inner and the 

 outer life and " explain the parts by the whole, and 

 not the whole by artificially severed parts." This 

 organic unity of mind in man is illustrated by the 

 organic unity of the universe, which, under the elec- 

 tric theory of creation, is a vast electric organism 

 bound together by invisible electric bands, where 

 every atom has an individuality manifested and ex- 

 plained in the harmonious unity of an ever-changing 

 but indestructible universe. 



As man is capable of knowing all things, he cannot 

 be identified with any of them, or if as an individual 

 he is so identified, he has within him in his spiritual 

 nature that which carries him beyond the limits of 

 his individuality. In his inner moral life man is 

 revealed to himself as a free-will agent, a great and 

 self-determining being, conscious of being subor- 

 dinated only to the law of duty, which is the law 

 of his own reason. 



That law, in spite of every outer pressure, he knows 

 he ought to obey, and therefore knows that he can 

 obey it. Thus man is both natural and spiritual; 

 he is limited to a finite personality, yet possesses a 

 universal capacity for knowledge and an absolute 

 power of self-determination. Human reason with 

 one voice seems to depress man to the level of an 

 animal, and with the other voice proceeds to elevate 

 him to the theatre of all life and being, as a " spec- 

 tator of all time and existence," gifted with absolute 

 freedom of will and conscious individuality. There 

 is an identity which is below or above all distinc- 

 tion; and the universe is one through all its multi- 

 plicity and permanent through all its changes. The 

 unity beneath all differences, the priority of the 



