Metaphysics insisted on treating the universe as one thought or treating thought as one universe; and philosophers agreed, like a kinetic gas, that the universe could be known only as motion of mind, and therefore as unity.

形而上学坚持将宇宙视为思想或将思想视为宇宙； 哲学家们为， 宇宙只能作为思维的运动而被识， 因此是统的。