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কৰ্ম্মজীবন । Σ8 δο a - - - - saw a 歌 a P", that we know matter and mind, but that is an operation of reason in its intuitive form. As we know mind and matter by intuition of reason, we know the Perfect Being, the eternal ground of all existences, upon whom matter and mind depend, by intuition of reason also, but the intuition of reason cannot give us an enlightened idea of absolute perfection. It only gives us a vague idea of the Perfect Being. It only enables us to know that the imperfect depends absolutely upon the Absolutely Perfect. But what is absolute perfection itself it does not enable us to know. For an enlightened idea of the Absolutely Perfect Being, we are indebted to the intuition of judgment which lets us know what qualities are nobler than others. It is by the intuition of judgment we perceive that one idea of absolute perfection is nobler than another until we arrive at the highest idea of God. From the intuitions of judgment also, we derive our notions of right and wrong. In this view of the question, conscience merges into the faculty of intuitive judgment, the feelings of moral approbation and disapprobation accompanying each act of such judgment being distinct from the latter. Conscience in its usual acceptation more properly means these feelings than the judgment above alluded tO 举 沿 沿 洛 张 来 沿 You seem to think that the ideas of God, given by the will, the conscience and the affections, are of an intuitive character but strictly considering they