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THE CONSTITUTION OF THOUGHT. 503 direct sequel in philosophy changed. Instead of that in- sufficiently pragmatistic examination of the abstract idea (Locke's nominal essence) whereby Berkeley led the way for Hume, we might fancy an immediate reaching of that de- velopment towards which Locke seems thus to have been unconsciously borne. Locke and Hegel unite in telling us what our thought continually implies as it follows, in deepening assurance, an objective directing the ultimate spring and security of which is out of sight that things are not essentially their bare individual selves. We can think of each only as having a significance which belongs apart to none, and belongs to any only on conditions which we ever more fully, but ever incompletely, assign.