564 INTELLECTUAL SYMBOLISM. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS. 
413. In commencing the objective analysis with Essential Necessity, or Form, and pro- 
ceeding to Essential Reality and Possibility, the method that was pursued in the primary 
analysis of Consciousness is reversed, and it is therefore well to observe the difference be- 
tween the chronological order, and the logical order of cognition. 
414, “Two ideas being given, we may inquire whether the one does not suppose the 
other; whether the one being admitted, we must not admit the other likewise, This is 
the logical order of ideas. . . 
415. “There is still another, that of anterior, or posterior, the order of the relative de- 
velopment of ideas in time,—their chronological order. . . Now the idea of space, we have 
just seen, is clearly the logical condition of all sensible experience. Is it also the chrono- 
logical condition of all experience, and of the idea of body? I believe no such thing... . 
Indeed, it is so little true, that the idea of space chronologically supposes the idea of body, 
that in fact, if you had not the idea of body, you would never have the idea of space.”* 
416. We have already seen that the ideas of Motivity are obtained the earliest, and 
those of Rationality the latest. In the order of time, therefore, we proceed from Motivity 
to Spontaneity, and from Spontaneity to Rationality. 
417. But as all truth is based on the absolute or necessary, in the investigation of truth, 
or the logical order, we descend from Rationality to Spontaneity and Motivity. The 
chronological order must be first pursued to determine the rational basis, and the logical 
order subsequently adopted, to erect the superstructure. 
418. Substance, in the objective phase of the subjective-objective relation, is the sub- 
stantial reality that corresponds with the formal reality of space,—or Marrsr. The in- 
trinsic attributes of Matter, are extension, impenetrability, and shape, all of which are 
possible only in and through space. 
419. Substance in the objective-objective relation, can evidently only be known through 
analogy. But, inasmuch as various philosophers have been led by various paths, to pro- 
nounce primary existence identical with thought or volition, and as it appeared evident at 
the very outset of our inquiries, that the highest unity, in which the subjective and objec- 
tive were both united and reconciled, must be a self-cognizing intelligence, we can find 
* Cousin: El. of Psychology, pp. 85-8. 
