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24 divided into two distinct orders of existence, mind and matter. Matter is known by its changes alone, mind also is known only by its changes. Thus, continues he, for all scientific purposes, the analogy between the two is complete, and science in both cases is practicable only by noting these changes and the order in which they recur.

"But may I ask," interposes the foreign interlocutor, "to whom these changes are known?"

"To me, the inquirer, to be sure!" answers the metaphysician.

"Then," rejoins the other," ought you not, logically speaking, to say that your universe resolves itself into three distinct orders of existence: 1st, Mind; 2d, Matter; and 3d, This which you call 'me,' to whom the changes of the other two are known; and when sciences of the first and second are complete,