and  that  man  together  with  his  faculty  of  understanding
i^-    innate   in    nature,    then    you    recognize   all    distinctions


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and  the  distinguished  objects  as  attributes  of  the  undis-
tinguished One,  of  the  absolute,  compared  to  which  all
things  are  only  relative  things,  in  other  words,  attrib-
utes.
I  am  endeavoring  to  make  clear  to  you  that  logical
thinking  requires  the  awakening  of  the  consciousness  of
the  one  supreme  general  nature.  And  you  must  not
think  of  this  sum  of  all  existence  in  the  stupid  way  in
which  people  used  to  think  of  the  animal  kingdom  be-
fore Darwin,  but  regard  the  world  as  a  living  organic
unit,  from  which  the  faculty  of  understanding  has  blos-
somed the  same  as  all  other  things.  In  the  logic  of  the
narrow-minded,  all  animal  species  are  widely  separated,
without  any  living  interconnection,  while  Darwin  has
demonstrated  the  uniform  process,  the  intermingling  life
in  multiform  creation.  The  illustration  of  this  famous
zoologist  of  the  transition  from  one  species  to  another
may  serve  as  an  example  of  the  logical  transitions  in  the
world  process,  in  which  all  differences  are  but  undula-
tions. All  our  classifications  must  always  remember  the
undivided  basis  on  which  they  are  resting.
We  have  shown  that  the  intellect  divides  the  univer-
sal nature,  classifies  and  analyzes  it,  and  we  have  learned
of  the  universal  nature  that  it  not  only  furnishes  to  the
intellect  the  material  for  its  work,  but  also  that  the  world
comprises  within  its  general  process  the  intellectual  pro-
cess, that  the  intellectual  movement  is  a  specialization  of
the  natural  movement.
