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516PROP. X.——————— and thus the laws of cognition are demonstrated to be in harmony with the laws of existence; and thus psychology, the whole spirit of whose teaching is to inculcate the frightful doctrine that there is no parallelism between them, is overthrown.—(Epistemology, Prop. VII., Obs. 13.)

5. It has now, moreover, been shown, by means of strict demonstration, that the substantial and absolute in existence equates, in essentialibus, with the substantial and absolute in cognition. The substantial and absolute in cognition was found to be the synthesis of the ego and non-ego—of the subject and object—of the universal and the particular. This same synthesis was found to be the substantial and absolute in ignorance, and hence it follows that this same synthesis is the substantial and Absolute in Existence; because the substantial and absolute in existence must be either that which we know or that which we are ignorant of. And thus we obtain further proof and corroboration of the coincidence of the Known and the Existent. The ego is the summum genus of existence, no less than of cognition.—(Epistemology, Prop. VII., Obs. 9 and 13.)

6. To remove any ground of misapprehension, it is necessary, at this place, to direct attention to the words "in essentialibus" in the preceding