net, there is _Limitation_, the outline of the
Planet, the _Limit_ or dividing surface between the space within it and
the space without.

It is this Congeries of the Aspects of Being which Kant denominates
QUALITY, as a name of a Group of the Categories of the Understanding;
and which he divides into

1. REALITY.
2. NEGATION.
3. LIMITATION.

He then treats REALITY as synonymous with the _Affirmative_ (Positive),
and NEGATION as synonymous with the _Negative_; although, as we have
seen, this Affirmative is not strictly equivalent to the _Something_ of
Hegel, nor this Negative to his _Nothing_. For _Reality_ we may, in a
general sense, put _Substance_, and for _Limitation_ we may put _Form_,
Omitting Negation which repeats the _Nothing_, as Reality repeats the
_Something_, it may now be said that the next Grand Division of the
Elements of Universal Being (after that into Something and Nothing) is
into

1. SUBSTANCE. )
= 3. EXISTENCE.
2. FORM. )

That is to say: _The Relative_ (The Domain of Cognizable Being) is first
made known to us through the _differentiation_ and _discrimination_ of
the two Factors _Something_ and _Nothing_ which lie _undifferentiated_
and _indistinguishable_ in _The Absolute_ (The Primitive Ground of
Being). _The Relative_ then subdivides into 1. _Substance_ (Reality),
and, 2. _Form_ (Limitation), which reunite to constitute that actualized
Being which we denominate _Existence_. Or, tabulated, thus:

THE ABSOLUTE (THE PRIMITIVE
GROUND OF BEING)
CONTAINS UNDIFFERENTIATED AND INDISTINGUISHABLE
THE TWO FACTORS
SOMETHING and NOTHING
WHICH CONSTITUTE THE FIRST TERMS
AND DISCRIMINATIONS OF
THE RELATIVE (THE DOMAIN OF
COGNIZABLE BEING);
WHICH ITSELF DIVIDES INTO
SUBSTANCE (REALITY) and FORM
(LIMITATION),
THE PRIME CONSTITUENTS OF
EXISTENCE.

To comprehend the vast importance of these discriminations, it is
necessary to understand that precisely those Principles of Distribution
which are applicable to the Universe at large are found to be applicable
to every minor sphere or domain of the Universe; in the same manner as
the same Geometrical Laws which prevail in the largest circle prevail
equally in the smallest. It is the prevalence of _Identical Principles_
in _diverse spheres_ which is the source of that Universal Analogy
throughout _all_ spheres that lies at the basis of UNIVERSOLOGY, and
gives the possibility of s