Endless were the subtleties into which ingenious men were misled, in the contemplation of those Fictions; and wonderful were the attributes which they bestowed upon them. "It is, then, on these _permanent_ Phantasms," says Mr. Harris, copying the ancient Philosophers, "that the human mind first works, and by an energy as spontaneous and familiar to its nature, as the seeing of colour is familiar to the eye, it discerns at once what in MANY is ONE; what in things DISSIMILAR and DIFFERENT is SIMILAR and the SAME. By this it comes to behold a kind of _superior_ Objects; a new Race of Perceptions, more comprehensive than those of sense; a Race of Perceptions, _each one of which, may be found entire and whole in the separate_ {252} _individuals of an infinite and fleeting multitude, without departing from the unity and permanence of its own nature_."[8*] Here we have something sufficiently mystical; a thing which is, at once, ONE, and MANY; which is ONE, it seems, by its very nature, and yet may exist, entire and whole, in the separate individuals of an infinite MULTITUDE. This is a specimen of their Doctrine; a specimen of what they call THE SUBLIME in Intellection. [Mill's footnote 8: Hermes, b. iii. ch. 4.] But this is not all. For as, when we form a minor class, as _man_, there is a certain ONE, the object of intellect, complete in every individual; MANY, therefore, and at the same time, ONE; so when we form a larger class, _animal_, there is a certain ONE, the object of intellect, complete in every one of those individuals. And when we go still higher, as to the grand class, BODY, there is always a ONE, the object of intellect, complete in every one of those more numerous individuals. When we mount up to the very summit, and embrace all things in one class, BEING, there is in like manner a ONE, the object of intellect, complete in every individual that exists. This is the grand ONE; the ONE pre-eminently. This is _the_ ONE; [Greek: to/ e(/n]; ONENESS; ONE in the abstract. This was a conception deemed truly SUBLIME. The loftiest epithets were bestowed upon [Greek: to/ e(/n], _the_ ONE. It was DIVINE; it was more than that; for being not concrete, but abstract, it was DIVINITY. All things were contained in _the_ ONE; and _the_ ONE was in all things. _The_ ONE was the source and principle of Being. It was immutable, eternal.