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INSTITUTES OF METAPHYSIC.

PROP. XXII.————

light—from a blindness to an insight in regard to the true object of his knowledge—from contradictory to intelligible thinking—from apparent to real cognition—be held to be a trivial and undesirable transmutation. In the next section the ship of speculation is put upon a new tack. The great waters of Reason spread before her in a direction heretofore untraversed; and launching forth under a new impulsion,

"Ingens iterabimus æquor."