PROP. IX.————
bottom and in the last resort, essentially the same—the same knowable in all essential respects, susceptible though it be of infinite varieties in all its accidental features.
Secondly: it finds that all cognition consists of two elements. 29. Secondly, a rigorous inquisition into the structure of the known and knowable, shows us that oneself must always be a part of everything that is known or knowable. The two constituents, therefore, of every cognition which any intelligence can entertain, are itself and—whatever else the other element may be; for this element being indefinite and inexhaustible, cannot be more specially condescended upon.
Thirdly: it finds that each element is no cognition, but only half or part-cognition. 30. Thirdly, this analysis necessarily reduces to a mere part of cognition everything which is known along with that definite part called self; because, if this definite element must be known (as it must) along with whatever is known, that which is known along with it cannot be a known or knowable whole; but only a known and knowable part. Thus many things—indeed, everything—which we heretofore regarded as the objects of cognition, turn out, on examination, to be only part-objects of cognition.
31. Fourthly. This analysis further reduces the material universe, whether considered in the aggre-