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PROPOSITION II.
THE OBJECT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.
The object of knowledge, whatever it may be, is always something more than what is naturally or usually regarded as the object. It always is, and must be, the object with the addition of oneself—object plus subject,—thing, or thought, mecum. Self is an integral and essential part of every object of cognition.
DEMONSTRATION.
It has been already established as the condition of all knowledge, that a thing can be known only provided the intelligence which apprehends it knows itself at the same time. But if a thing can be known only provided oneself be known along with it, it follows that the thing (or thought) and oneself together must, in every case, be the object, the true and complete object, of knowledge; in other words, it follows
