Conclusion
906. All we have said in this work shows that the many elements composing human nature together form a perfect unity. Everything in the human being is interconnected and tends to a single end. Matter is pervaded by animal feeling, which seeks to control matter completely; instinct begins and continues in feeling; the unity of instinct constitutes the individual.
But superior to animal feeling is a greater principle, intuiting ideal being and destined to govern feeling totally. This subjective principle reveals itself as reason and will. A person now exists, and expresses the primacy of all rational activities.
This person is itself governed by ideological and physical laws which have their origin in the intrinsic order of ideal and real being. The laws emanating from real being have a determined relationship with those emanating from ideal being; this gives rise to morality. Through this relationship the person becomes moral and enters the sphere of things which partake of the infinite and acquire an infinite value.
But the subject principle does not allow itself to be governed entirely by these laws, nor does it necessarily preserve their natural relationship. It either withdraws from them or freely submits to them. Hence, freedom, a new form of activity, in which is found the pinnacle of human nature as potential nature (but not its full actuation).
This activity, greatly superior to all the others, cannot be considered simply in itself; it must also be considered in its act, together with the extraordinary effects of its act. Through this act the human being merits, and spontaneously moves to unite himself to all beings and to the source of beings, loving them all and receiving love from them all. He gives of himself to all beings, and they give of themselves to him. He thus widens his own limits, bringing his restricted, deficient nature to completion. A tiny part of being, he enjoys not himself alone but all entities, and in the expanse of essential being finds and receives his own happiness, a moral happiness which he can no longer refuse, a good he cannot lose. Such is the end of human beings, the noblest end of person, and hence, the end of human nature. This communication and mutual society of beings with the being of beings and between themselves is the end of the universe.