Excerpt from General Physiology, or Physiological Theory of Cosmos: A Rectification of the Analytical Concept of Matter and of the Synthetical Concept of Bodies, Resolving the Problem of the Unity of All Objective Knowledge And by denying the reality of some existing things and forms of activity without any other reason than that they cannot be weighed or touched, when all we know as real existences are necessarily acquired, not by the irreflexive Observation of the senses, but under the guide of reason - rational experience. For such a purpose this book opens with an Introduction, giving the psychological and logical data necessary to develop and understand correctly the Physiological Theory. In addition, the work closes with a recapitulation of our principal conclusions, and a summary of definitions, in order to show at a glance the new ideas here given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.