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salt; so in explaining the connection between two subject-objects (i.e., between mind-and-matter and mind-and-matter), no new truth could be elicited, no difficulty whatever would be solved, the quantum before us would be merely increased. Some allowance must be made for the imperfection of the above illustration, but we think that it may serve to indicate our meaning. The true state of the case, however, is that there are not really two subject-objects before us, but only one viewed under two different aspects. The subject-object viewed subjectively, is the whole mind of man, not without an external universe along with it, but with an external universe necessarily given in the very giving, in the very conception of that mind. In this case all external nature is our nature, is the necessary integration of man. The subject-object viewed objectively, is the whole external universe, not without mind along with it, but with mind necessarily given in the very giving, in the very conception of that external universe. In this case our nature is external nature, is the necessary integration of the universe. Beginning with the subjective subject-object (mind), we find that its very central and intelligible essence is to have an external world as one with it; beginning with the objective subject-object (the external world), we find that its very central and intelligible essence is to have a mind as one with it. He who can maintain his equilibrium between these two opposite views without falling over either into the one