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164 vague as it may be, explanation cannot be carried. Potentiality is related to it as to the, but the relation is too dependent upon verbal distinctions, which cannot be transferred, to admit of being made evident even to the student of the original; and thus it may be asked, what is meant by knowledge is, "when active" identical &c. or the same words where they recur?

is, when active, identical with that which is known; but knowledge, in potentiality, pre-exists in the individual, and yet, strictly speaking, it does not pre-exist, as all products are from a being in reality. Now, it is the object of perception, which appears, by its agency, to create sensation from the sensibility which is in potentiality; for it suffers neither impression nor change. So that this is a different kind of motion; for motion was said to be the act of something incomplete; but an act in an absolute sense is different, as it is the act of something complete. Thus, a simple sensation is like to a simple affirmation or a single idea; and as the impression may be grateful or painful, it is, as it were, affirmative or negative, and it bids