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deavoring to separate every inference into as many distinct steps as possible, I should endeavor to construct a system of expression which should enable me to jump over as many inferential steps as possible at one bound, without danger of slipping.
But my purpose is just the reverse of that.

Here it the blackboard.
It is nothing but a wooden thing with a plane black surface.
But with your cooperation, I will work a metamorphosis of it.
It shall be a representation of the universe, - not necessarily the universe of experience, but a universe of my creation which may coincide with that real universe.
So be it.

So now the blackboard is quite another thing than pieces of wood with a plane black surface.
It is something wherein