CONTENTS.

They constitute a oneness in every essence, which may be called the thought of the essence, or the idea of the thing.
This idea is not a mere thought but is realized through the forces which govern all things. The essence of a thing is, therefore, its living idea.
Ideas find a perfect realization in nature.
Renewed doubts regarding whether the material of which things are composed gives them their peculiarity, and the answer to these doubts.
Each thing is only part of a combination of things, which again is part of a more comprehensive combination, itself belonging to a still higher one, and so on to infinity; it is the same with ideas, of which they are the realization. Therefore, the whole of existence is the work and revelation of living Universal Reason.
The reconciliation of the thought of the essential similarity of matter and spirit consists in this: that the material and the spiritual are inseparably united in the creative thoughts of the Almighty.

THE FOUNTAIN . . . . . . . . . . pp. 28—40

Repose beside a large fountain, and the impression it makes.
A demand for an explanation of this impression, and in what sense of the word it may be expected.
The impression that is produced by water rising contrary to its gravity i.e., rising upward against the natural downward pull of gravity.
The impression that is produced by the increasing size of the rising jet of water.
The impression that is produced by the inward movement of the jet, and the consequent dispersion of the separate parts.
The different impressions produced by the sound of the falling drops.
The beautiful exhibited in the figure described by the drops in their fall.
The connection of reason contained in the combination of effects is comprehended with pleasure by the inner sense, which is not indeed conscious of this reason, though it derived its essence from All-governing Reason.
The various effects of light in the fountain increase the animation of the impression.
The impressions produced by fountains of different magnitudes and forces.
The impression of beauty in the sublime and in the great.
The impression of beauty in that which is full of life.
The sublime, the living, and the harmonious considered as forms of beauty.
Reference to the eternal source of the beautiful.