X INTRODUCTION. 



separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in 

 Man attained self-consciousness. 



1 1 . Physio-philosophy is, therefore, the generative his- 

 tory of the world, or, in general terms, the History of 

 Creation, a name under which it was taught by the most 

 ancient philosophers, viz. as Cosmogony. From its em- 

 bracing the universe, it is plainly the Genesis of Moses. 



12. Man is the summit, the crown of nature's deve- 

 lopment, and must comprehend everything that has pre- 

 ceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the 

 earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man 

 must represent the whole world in miniature. 



13. Now since in Man are manifested self-conscious- 

 ness or spirit, Physio-philosophy has to show that the 

 laws of spirit are not different from the laws of nature ; 

 but that both are transcripts or likenesses of each other. 



14. Physio- and Pneumato-philosophy range, therefore, 

 parallel to each other. 



15. Physio-philosophy, however, holds the first rank, 

 Pneumato-philosophy the second : the former, therefore, is 

 the ground and foundation of the latter, for nature is 

 antecedent to the human spirit. 



16. Without Physio-philosophy, therefore, there is no 

 Pneumato-philosophy, any more than a flower is present 

 without a stem, or an edifice without foundation. 



17. The whole of philosophy depends, consequently, 

 upon the demonstration of the parallelism that exists 

 between the activities of Nature and of Spirit. 



DIVISION OF THE SCIENCE, 



13. It will be shown in the sequel that the Spiritual 

 is antecedent to nature. Physio-philosophy must, there- 

 fore, commence from the spirit. 



19. It will also be shown in the sequel that the whole 

 Animal Kingdom, e. g. is, none other than the repre- 

 sentation of the several activities or organs of Man ; 

 naught else than Man disintegrated. In like manner 

 nature is none other than the representation of the indi- 

 vidual activities of the spirit. As, therefore, Zoology can 



