This he avouches in the same breath in which he gives that "nature" to a participle and its adverb!
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
Viewed in this light, the science of symbols or of correspondences ceases to be an arbitrary device, susceptible of alteration according to fancy, and avouches itself an essential and consistent relation between the things of the mind and the things of the senses.
"Confessions and Criticisms"
Julian Hawthorne
The "simple animal" avouches his ability to transcend any imaginative conception of him.
"Confessions and Criticisms"
Julian Hawthorne