process of completely analysing and classifying the
emotions of the Subject. The first glimpse attained
by mankind that there was still this further work
before them, namely, to analyse the mind itself, after
analysing the relation of the mind to its environment
and to other minds therein, was expressed, at least
in Grecian development, in the famous inscription at
Delphi Γνῶθι σεαῦτν.

2.But if this is the course of the actual develop-
ment of reflection, it is absurd to demand that meta-
physic should deviate from it in order to begin with
the conception of a Self or a Mind ready analysed
and established, with distinctions ready drawn be-
tween the emotions which arise solely in contempla-
tion of itself and those which arise in contemplation
of other minds, since these are distinctions which are
not obvious from the first but are discovered gradu-
ally by a long course of reflection. Such a method
would be more consonant to an ontological psycho-
logy, the principle of which is to treat the Self or
the Mind as a single determinate being, marked out
from the first as different from its objects, instead of
being an object discovered by much, but now long-
forgotten, thought and observation. But metaphysic
is itself in its present shape but the continuation of,
though it is also the investigation into, these very
processes of self-analysis and self-classification. The
whole history of metapbysic is continuous, its earliest
and latest enquiries are parts of one unbroken chain,
in which the distinctions drawn, the insights won,
and the classifications established, serve as the basis,
the instrument, the logic, of further discoveries, dis-
coveries which only differ from the earlier ones in
being performed with a greater degree of self-con-

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