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LETTER TO MR DE QUINCEY.
subject. This, then, is the ὄντως ὄν, the unit or minimum, out of ourselves, of our completed ignorance (as it is, in ourselves, of our completed knowledge), a (to us) unknown subject, or intelligence, or ego in a (to us) unknown synthesis with (to us) unknown things. But you must not judge of the system from these abrupt and ineffectual jottings. It will not shut up so short as I anticipated.—Very truly yours,
J. F. Ferrier.
Thomas de Quincey, Esq.
