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418PROP. IV.———— have cleared away all obstructions which might remain; and we have now little more to do than to look on while the waters take their own unimpeded course. The counter-propositions will be rapidly swept away before the irresistible flood.

2. Fourth Counter-proposition.—"We can be ignorant of objects without a subject; in other words, we can be, and we are, ignorant of objects per se, or out of relation to a mind." This counter-proposition goes down in an instant. There can be no ignorance, in any quarter, of an object without a subject or mind, simply because there can be no knowledge in any quarter, of an object without a subject or mind.