That things have a nature and are finally instances of law is the inevitable result of inquiry, but what is lost is the being of things. No amount of law, of patterns causes, dependencies, relations, formulas can ever reach the being of what it is that is expressed in this way. The missing factor falls more and more into question, and invites qualification as mind or will, or simply being of being - all of these are only analogies. It is as much at the beginning of inquiry as at its end, after all words have failed.