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 HEGEL'S TREATMENT OP THE SUBJECTIVE NOTION. 343 How, it may be asked, were we entitled to make this ad- vance ? It implies that whenever two or more things have one common quality, they will also have another. Now we are entitled to assume this, because we have seen that you can always find a common quality for any two things if only you go high enough. In the last resort there are qualities common to everything that they are real, that they have external connexions, and so forth. So, when we have predicated a Universal of any two or more Individuals, however dissimilar in other respects those Individuals may prove to be, we know that some other Universal may always be found, which they have in common, and we shall be enabled to put our assertion in the form Some A are B where A and B are both universals. Of course, the higher we have to go for our second uni- versal, the less information we get. " Some judges are cor- rupt " is a much more interesting and significant proposition than " Some officials are corrupt," and the latter again is an improvement on the more general proposition " Some men are corrupt ". But although the importance of the proposi- tion which we can obtain may vary, some proposition of this- form will always be true. Every Universal will have more than one Individual under it, and these Individuals can always be stated as coming under yet another Universal. And this fresh way of stating them is essential. For merely to take a plurality of isolated Individuals instead of a single one, would not solve the problem, but leave it as hopeless as before. The same difficulty would occur* about, each Individual separately, and the only change would be that it would be repeated many times over. It is not trans- cended till we have grouped the Individuals under another Universal, and so made the Judgment the expression of the relation between two Universals. Judgment of Allness, To make it more definite must be our next step. A Particular Judgment can never be a full account of the facts to be explained. It marks out a class and says that some members have a certain quality, and some have not. This, taken by itself, is to assert of each member of the class the same proposition, it may or may not have the quality. But. this is not the truth. Of some members of the class we must say, if we are to speak the truth, This has the quality; of others we must say This has not the quality. Instead of making the same problematic statement about all of them,