Jackson had become the alter ego of Lee, and it is not difficult to understand the sense of loss felt by the commander-in-chief.

And she smiled upon me, tenderly, from the depths of her alter-egoism.

The question now arises, What, then, is that which seems to us so like an alter et idem,which appears to act upon, and is recognized by us, through an animal, a bird, a tree, and a thousand different, nay, opposing objects, in the same way, and to the same end?

Again, therefore, that we may return to the proposed object of investigation, how can a self-motive nature of this kind, which is mingled with the alter-motive, be the first principle of things?