ABSTRACT
It cannot be said that only a part of its nature is constituted by its relations and the rest not. For then this latter part would be its individuality proper, and must be regarded as not entering into integration with the other elements. But then to that part the relations would be external. And we have in our hands the difficulty about relations. If the relations are external to the terms, the former would require other relations to join them with the latter, these again other relations to join them with the first set of relations and terms, and so on. So external relations must be debarred from existing in the Absolute.
