Just at this point it is suitable to notice, what is, perhaps, the most egregious and unpardonable blunder the Limitists have made. In order to do this satisfactorily, the following analysis of the human mind is presented. The soul is a spiritual person, and an animal nature. To this animal nature belong the Sense and the Understanding. It is universally acknowledged,--at least the Limitists will not deny,--that the Sense and the Understanding are wholly within, and conditioned by Nature. Observe then their folly. They deny that a part can account for a whole; they reject Pantheism; _and yet they employ only those faculties which they confess are wholly within and conditioned by Nature_--for they deny the existence of the Pure Reason, the perceptive faculty of the spiritual person--_to search, only in Nature, for the cause of Nature_. A fly would buzz among the wheels of a clock to as little purpose. The result arrived at just above, now claims our careful attention. _The Ultimate Ground of the Universe is_ THE SUPREME SPIRIT. To appreciate this result, we must return to our analysis of man. In his spiritual personality we have found him wholly supernatural. We have further found that, only as a spiritual person is he capable of pursuing this investigation to a final and valid termination. If, then, we would complete our undertaking, we must ascend into a sphere whose light no eagle's eye can ever bear; and whose atmosphere his daring wing can never beat. There no sense can ever enter; no judgments are needed. Through Reason--the soul's far-darting eye,--and through Reason alone, can we gaze on the Immutable. Turning this searching eye upon ourselves, we find that man, as spiritual person, is a Pure Reason,--the faculty which gives him _a priori_ first principles, as the standard for conduct and the forms for activity,--a Spiritual Sensibility, which answers with emotive music to the call of the Reason; and lastly, a Will, in which the Person dwells central, solitary, and supreme, the final arbiter of its own destiny. Every such being is therefore a miniature final cause.