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systems; while the derivative laws and forces operating in life and 
organization, result in an organism , which, according to the defini- 
tion of Kant, u is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and 
means.” 
Applying these doctrines to the primary law of consciousness, 
the author maintains that such a result of the law of design, aimed 
at and attained, may be designated in relation to the consciousness, 
the idea of unity ; in relation to the external world, the laiv of unity. 
The law implies two things — construction of parts in mutual rela- 
tion — or organization ; and action of the parts in mutual relation 
as a whole, or individual life. The fundamental idea of conscious- 
ness^ — the intuition in man of the “ I am,” or Ego, is the ultimate 
result presented to the consciousness of these two things. It is the 
final cause of all those derivative or correlative laws and forces 
of the primary law of mind and primary forces of matter, which, 
operating in his body as “ teleorganic ” laws and forces, or vital 
laws and forces of adaptation to ends, build up his body into an or- 
ganism. 
In this way (the author proceeds to show) we arrive at the origin 
of all other necessary or intuitional truths, of which the conception 
of design itself is one of the most fundamental. The mind of man 
having thus the results of the great law of design presented to it 
as intuitive ideas, in virtue of the teleological operation in his orga- 
nization of the physical and vital forces, must be potentially, and 
when fully evolved in correlation with organization, actually a mi- 
crocosm. And it follows, from the correlation of the physical, 
vital, and mental forces of creation, that all the intuitive ideas of the 
human mind are to be discovered in the external world, as derivative 
results of the primary law of design ; or, in other words, as ideas of 
the Great Thought manifested in creation. The author therefore 
maintains that such a true science of ideology or metaphysics as 
could be built upon these principles, would be fit to take its place 
at the head of all the natural sciences ; for we can thereby attain to 
a criterion of absolute truth, and correct the dimly felt intuitions of 
our own consciousness, by comparing them with the fixed, immuta- 
ble, and eternal conceptions of the Divine mind, as manifested in 
creation. 
The author next proceeds to illustrate these views by special ex- 
amples. Thus, in psychology , he shows that the will is an intui- 
