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a consciousness of Reality. My own reality is more evident than that of any being out 
of myself, and the highest reality to which I can attain is, therefore, that of a Sponta- 
neous Intelligence. 
340. Rationality decides not only with unvarying uniformity from the data that are 
given it, but it does so with the full conviction that it would be impossible for any intel- 
ligent being to decide otherwise from the same data. In viewing the possibility of Mo- 
tivity, it decides that there must necessarily be an external objective cause of all our ex- 
ternal impressions ; it seeks in the reality of the subjective Spontaneity a necessary object 
for its consideration ; and it conjoins the idea of necessity with all its determinations, thus 
completing the circle of our modes of thought. 
341. Consciousness, therefore, in the three conditions of intelligence, gives us the three 
categories of Modality,—Possibility, Reality, and Necessity, all of which refer to General 
Science. _ 
342. Subjecting the several mental states in turn to the same kind of analysis, our next 
inquiries must be: How do Motivity, Spontaneity, Rationality regard the objects of their 
cognition? We will seek the answers by the same clue that we adopted in the case of 
Consciousness. 
343. A passive and comparatively quiet state of mind is the earliest, the easiest, and 
perhaps the most common at all periods of lite. The facts of Motivity are therefore the 
most evident, the most generally admitted, and the most readily understood. Motivity is 
emphatically the faculty of childhood or pupilage; and all its teachings are received with 
the implicit faith of the child and pupil. 
344, All our impressions are susceptible of increase or diminution. Hence through 
Motivity we readily obtain the idea of Quantity. 
345. All the impressions of mere Motivity are single and momentary. Merely as re- 
ceptive beings, we neither distinguish parts of objects nor unite different impressions 
together. If we feel, our sensation is a unit,—merely a feeling, and nothing more; if we 
see, we see an object as a unit, and so with every impression on the senses. It is merely 
the impression that is cognized through Motivity, and the category of Motivity, cognizing 
its own impressions, is, therefore, Unity. 
346, Spontaneity unites several determinations in its own consciousness. It embraces 
the faculty of attention, and applying itself to the determinations of Motivity, it can at- 
tend successively to all the parts of an object or of an impression, and derive the idea of 
plurality from unity. The category of Spontaneity, cognizing the impressions of Motivity, 
is, therefore, Plurality. 
347. The office of Rationality is, as we have seen, to cognize and compare the repre- 
sentations of the other intellectual conditions. Applying itself to the determinations of 
