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problem to legitimate boundaries irrespective of all barriers of 
dogmatism and traditionalism, makes science aware of a final 
limit of its career within green pastures and by still waters, 
beyond which is not even the reign of chaos and old night. 
1. The first real procedure of mind in its campaign of conquest 
is to present to itself in concept the modes of reality which are objec¬ 
tive to thought. First, we will say, through the tracts of the 
senses by mental signals mind is put upon the knowledge of forms 
of being which ard not modes of self. By the push of wonderful 
mental instincts, in the same manner, they are grouped accord¬ 
ing to the inner signals of sensation and defined to the wonder¬ 
ful inner conqueror in the terms of the feeling they occasion. 
Modes are interpreted as modes of substances, and individual 
things appear by representation in the field of mind. In the 
rapid progress of mental history, interpretations of modes are 
corrected, their groupings are modified, and individuals come to 
better definition. As the treasure of mind increases and its 
skill in acquainting itself improves, individual things are com¬ 
bined into larger and complex individuals, which are constructed 
into completer and fuller complexities and combinations. Now 
the mind is coming to have rich possessions, persons moving in 
their places amid the environment of many things, with the 
landscape around them and the heavens above them, with the 
sun lighting them by day and the moon by night, and wonder 
woos it on to enlarge its domain out into the universe of being, 
like Alexander seeking the empire of the East. Meanwhile, with 
all this has been coming up into modes of mind through con¬ 
sciousness the transcript of its own being, its individuality, 
highly endowed with instincts of mastery, with intelligence, 
sensibility, dominion of will, aspiration, prophecy of conquest, 
sense of dignity, personality. Other minds start up into the 
field of view, with combinations of personalities in their organic 
groupings, in families and nations and the race, and by analogy 
other populations in other spheres, and lo! mind has now in its 
vast concept a whole physical universe peopled with inhabitants 
in their orders. Meanwhile, again, partly as the inference of 
what it is already in possession of, partly by the vision of high 
endowment, it is entered into the knowledge of mind that out 
