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Rh fundamental metaphysical conception. For it is a self-experiencing and, therefore, self-representative system.

I conclude, then, so far, that by no device can we avoid conceiving the realm of Being as infinite in precisely the positive sense, now so fully illustrated. The Universe, as Subject-Object, contains a complete and perfect image, or view of itself. Hence it is, in structure, at once One, as a single system, and also an endless Kette. Its form is that of a Self. To observe this fact is simply to reflect upon the most elementary and fundamental implications of the concept of Being. The Logic of Being has, as a central theorem, the assertion, Whatever is, is apart of a self-imaged system, of the type herein discussed. This truth is common property for all, whether realists or idealists, whether sceptics or dogmatists. And hence our trivial illustration of the ideally perfect map of England within England, turns out to be, after all, a type and image of the universal constitution of things. I am obliged to regard this result as of the greatest weight for any metaphysical enterprise. No philosophy that wholly ignores this ele-