September 1851

Art. 'T is indifferent whether you say, all is matter, or, all is spirit; and 'tis plain there is a tendency in the times to an identity-philosophy. You do not degrade man by saying, spirit is only finer body; nor exalt him by saying, mat- ter is phenomenal merely ; all rests on the affec- tion of the theorist, — on the question whether his aim be noble.