second, nor in the third, nor in the thousandth; for a thousandth is not nearer than the first to the infinite--to absolute universality. It is the same, and still more evidently, with _necessity_. Pay particular attention to this point; if necessity is not in the first fact, it can not be in any; for necessity can not be formed little by little, and by successive increments. If, on the first murder I see, I do not exclaim that this murder had necessarily a cause, at the thousandth murder, although it shall be proved that all the others had causes, I shall have the right to think that this murder has, very probably, also a cause, but I shall never have the right to say that it _necessarily_ had a cause. But when universality and necessity are already in a single case, that case is sufficient to entitle me to deduce them from it,"[225] and we may add, also, to affirm them of every other event that may transpire. [Footnote 225: Cousin, "True, Beautiful, and Good," pp. 57, 58.] The following _schema_ will exhibit the generally accepted results of this method of analysis applied to the phenomena of thought: (i.) _Universal and necessary principles, or primitive judgments from whence is derived the cognition of Absolute Being_. 1. _The principle of Substance_; thus enounced--"every quality supposes a _subject_ or real being." 2. _The principle of Causality_; "every thing that begins to be supposes a _power_ adequate to its production, _i.e._, an efficient cause." 3. _The principle of Unity_; "all differentiation and plurality supposes an incomposite unity; all diversity, an ultimate and indivisible identity." 4. _The principle of the Unconditioned_; "the finite supposes the infinite, the dependent supposes the self-existent, the temporal supposes the eternal." (ii.) _Universal and necessary principles, or primitive judgments, from which is derived the cognition of the Absolute Reason_. 1. _The principle of Ideality_; thus enounced, "facts of order--definite proportion, symmetrical arrangement, numerical relation, geometrical form--having a commencement in time, present themselves to us as the expression of _Ideas_, and refer us to _Mind_ as their analogon, and exponent, and source." 2. _The principle of Consecution_; "the uniform succession and progressive evolution of new existences, according to fixed definite archetypes, suppose a unity of _thought_--a comprehensive _plan_ embracing all existence." 3. _The principle of Intentionality or Final Cause_; "every means supposes an _end_ contemplated, and a choice and adaptation of means to secure the _end_." 4. _The principle of Personality_; "intelligent purpose and voluntary choice imply a personal agent." (iii.) _Universal and necessary principles, or primitive judgments, from whence is derived the cognition of the Absolute Good_.