Schools might be broken up, but the interests of the human race would be secured. In this spirit the author of the transcendental philosophy began, continued, and finished his work. The Schoolmen had used it to describe whatever could not be comprehended in or classified under the so-called categories of Aristotle, who was the recognized prince of the intellectual world. . . . Transcendental anatomy inquires into the idea, the original conception or model on which the organic frame of animals is built, the unity of plan discernible throughout multitudinous genera and orders. Transcendental curves are curves that cannot be defined by algebraic equations.
Transcendental equations express relations between transcendental qualities.
Transcendental physiology treats of the laws of development and function, which apply, not to particular kinds or classes of organisms, but to all organisms. The transcendental philosophy is the philosophy that is built on these necessary and universal principles, these primary laws of mind, which are the ground of absolute truth. The supremacy given to these and the authority given to the truths that result from them entitle the philosophy to its name. A system of such conceptions would be called Transcendental Philosophy. The extended application of such an organon would furnish a system of pure reason.