"Der Mensch ist das einzige Geschöpf, das erzogen werden muss. Unter der Erziehung nämlich verstehen wir die Wartung (Verpflegung, Unterhaltung), Disciplin (Zucht) und Unterweisung nebst der Bildung. Dem zufolge ist der Mensch Säugling,--Zögling--und Lehrling." Kant. _Pädagogik_, Einleitung. "Man's Intellectual Progress consists in the Idealization of Facts, and man's Moral Progress consists in the Realization of Ideas." Whewell's _Moral Philosophy, Additional Lectures_, p. 129. "Say! when the world was new and fresh from the hand of its Maker, Ere the first modelled frame thrilled with the tremors of life,... .... Forms of transcendent might--Beauty with Majesty joined, None to behold, and none to enjoy, and none to interpret? Say! was the WORK wrought out! Say was the GLORY complete? What could reflect, though dimly and faint, the INEFFABLE PURPOSE Which from chaotic powers, Order and Harmony drew? What but the reasoning spirit, the thought and the faith and the feeling? What, but the grateful sense, conscious of love and design? Man sprang forth at the final behest. His intelligent worship Filled up the void that was left. Nature at length had a Soul." Sir J. Herschel. _Essays, etc._, p. 737. "Wär ein verständiger Sinn auch mir doch beschieden gewesen! Aber es täuschte mich trügrischer Pfad, hieher mich, dann dorthin Lockend. Nun bin ich bejahrt und doch unbefriedigt von allem Forschen. Denn wo ich den Geist hinwende, da löst sich mir alles Auf in Eins und Dasselbe: da alles Seyende, allzeit Allwärts angezogen, in ähnliche, eine Natur tritt." Jacobi. _Werke, Vorrede zu David Hume_, p. 103. "Throughout all future time, as now, the human mind may occupy itself, not only with ascertained phenomena and their relations, but also with that unascertained something which phenomena and their relations imply. Hence if knowledge cannot monopolize consciousness--if it must always continue possible for the mind to dwell upon that which transcends knowledge; then there can never cease to be a place for something of the nature of Religion; since Religion under all its forms is distinguished from everything else in this, that its subject matter is that which passes the sphere of experience." Herbert Spencer. _First Principles_, p. 17. SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER V. The argument of this chapter turns upon the analysis of concrete processes carried on throughout human life; together with their correlations or correspondent factors visible _in rerum naturâ_. All these being complex activities, resolve themselves into series of simpler activities, which, though separable in thought, follow each other inseparably as real working elements of human or natural productions,--or of both. In each productive process of Mankind, we perceive:-- 1. A purpose conceived,--(the end or final cause.) 2. A power or force which has to be (a.) discovered and (b.) fitted to this human purpose.