text:  If he intends that his two great modes of thought the theologic and the positive (between which the metaphysic performs the function of transition ) are _not_ equally spontaneous but that the one must in the order of nature precede the other; then besides that this is an unfounded supposition it would follow--since the mind or _organization_ of man remains from age to age the same in its fundamental powers--that at this very time no man could be inducted into the positive state of any branch of knowledge without first going through its theologic and metaphysic