Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy .. . stimony (I.) is, or (II.) is not, admitted? (I.) If the veracity of consciousness be uncondition-ally admitted; if the intuitive knowledge of mindand matter, and the consequent reality of their antith-esis be taken as truths, to be explained if possible,but in themselves to be held as paramount to all doubt,— the doctrine is established which we would call thescheme of Natural Realism, or Natural Dualism. (II.) But, on the other alternative, five great varia-tions from truth and nature may be conceived; andall of these have actually found their
Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy .. . stimony (I.) is, or (II.) is not, admitted? (I.) If the veracity of consciousness be uncondition-ally admitted; if the intuitive knowledge of mindand matter, and the consequent reality of their antith-esis be taken as truths, to be explained if possible,but in themselves to be held as paramount to all doubt,— the doctrine is established which we would call thescheme of Natural Realism, or Natural Dualism. (II.) But, on the other alternative, five great varia-tions from truth and nature may be conceived; andall of these have actually found their advocates, ac-cording as the testimony of consciousness, in the factof perception (1.), is wholly, or (2.) is partially, re-jected. 1. If wholly rejected, that is, if nothing but thephenomenal reality of the fact itself be allowed, theresult is Nihilism. 2. If partially rejected, four schemes emerge, ac-cording to the way in which the fact is tampered with. 1 For admissions to this effect, see Beids Works, pp. 747-8. —J. C. M. AN OUTLINE OF. § § O -2 C) Oh « 60 fc .2 ft S a Ed O 2 S « sin william Hamiltons philosophy. 89 (i.) If the veracity of consciousness be allowed tothe equipoise of the object and subject in the act, butrejected as to the reality of their antithesis, the systemof Absolute Identity emerges, which reduces both mindand matter to phenomenal modifications of the samecommon substance. (ii.) and (iii.) If the testimony of consciousness berefused to the co-originality and reciprocal indepen-dence of the subject and object, two schemes are de-termined, according as the one or the other of theterms is placed as the original and genetic. Is theobject educed from the subject, Idealism; is the sub-ject educed from the object, Materialism, is the result. These systems are all conclusions from an originalinterpretation of the fact of consciousness in per-ception, carried intrepidly forth to its legitimateissue. But there is one scheme, which, violating theintegr
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