PHYSIO- PHILOSOPHY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



CONCEPTION OF THE SCIENCE. 



1 . Philosophy, as the science which embraces the prin- 

 ciples of the universe or world, is only a logical, which 

 may perhaps conduct us to the real, conception. 



2. The universe or world is the reality of mathema- 

 tical ideas, or, in simpler language, of mathematics. 



3. Philosophy is the recognition of mathematical ideas 

 as constituting the world, or the repetition of the origin 

 of the w r orld in consciousness. 



4. 5. Spirit is the motion of mathematical ideas. 

 Nature, their manifestation. 



6. The philosophy of Spirit is the representation of the 

 movements of ideas in consciousness. 



7. The philosophy of Nature that of the phenomena or 

 manifestations of ideas in consciousness. 



8. The wrorld consists of two parts : of one apparent, 

 real, or material ; and one non-apparent, ideal, spiritual, 

 in which the material is not present, or which is naught 

 in relation to the material. 



9. There are, accordingly, two parts or divisions of 

 Philosophy, viz. Pneumato- and Physio-philosophy. 



10. Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in ac- 

 cordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its 

 origin ; and, therefore, how something derived its exist- 

 ence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods 

 of the world's development from nothing ; how the ele- 

 ments and heavenly bodies originated ; in what method 

 by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they 



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