III. The Pre-Michaelite Way, and the Way of Michael

The usual notion is this: Outside, is the natural world with its things and processes; inside, are the Ideas. The ideas represent concepts of the things of Nature, or else of the so-called laws of Nature. The primary concern of thinkers is then to shew how to construct those particular ideas which bear the requisite relation to the things of Nature, or from which the true laws of Nature may be deduced.