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SCIENCE out of a primitive form of sensitivity, this a priori knowledge must have been there within that priinitive nucleus. But how can you think of these a priori concep. tions, in connection with or as coming out of the crude nucleus of sensitivity supposed to be residing in an atom of matter? Why were they not functioning in the primitive form of sensitiviry? Did they, too, exist then in some primary form ? But Kant absolutely declines to listen to this argument, because these no. tions are not the outcome of experience. Causality, certainly, is not such a concept as may be said to have been developed by evolution, nor could a notion like that of the infinity of space be conceived as growing along with the development of the brain. The human mind fails to picture a primitive form of these conceptions from which they could have developed or grown by evolution. They are inherent in the mind whence they arise with lucidity of thought. Inalienable assets of consciousness, they must bave sluinbered in the bosom of consciousness when the intellect lay wrapped up in the lowest form of sensitivity. Thus do all ideas knowledge itsell-lie dormant in the ego.
We have said that every ego is potentially omni scient hy. nature. This is easily proved. The soul being not an “immaterial entity," but a kind of substance, the natural properties of the soul-substance must be the same wherever it may be found, This is tantamount to saying that all souls are alike in respect of their attributes, however much they may
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