ling about the through-and-through
universe, which is entirely different from mine, and which I should very
likely be much the better for gaining if they would only show me how.
Their persistence in telling me that feeling has nothing to do with the
question, that it is a pure matter of absolute reason, keeps me for ever
out of the pale. Still seeing a _that_ in things which Logic does not
expel, the most I can do is to _aspire_ to the expulsion. At present I
do not even aspire. Aspiration is a feeling. What can kindle feeling but
the example of feeling? And if the Hegelians _will_ refuse to set an
example, what can they expect the rest of us to do? To speak more
seriously, the one _fundamental_ quarrel Empiricism has with Absolutism
is over this repudiation by Absolutism of the personal and aesthetic
factor in the construction of philosophy. That we all of us have
feelings, Empiricism feels quite sure. That they may be as prophetic and
anticipatory of truth as anything else we have, and some of them more so
than others, can not possibly be denied. But what hope is there of
squaring and settling opinions unless Absolutism will hold parley on
this common ground; and will admit that all philosophies are hypotheses,
to which all our faculties, emotional as well as logical, help us, and
the truest of which will at the final integration of things be found in
possession of the men whose faculties on the whole had the best divining
power?

FOOTNOTES:

[140] [Reprinted from _Mind_, vol. IX, No. 34, April, 1884.]

[141] [In 1884.]

[142] ["Life and Mechanism," _Mind_, vol. IX, 1884.]

[143] [_Cf._ P. Janet and G. Seailles: _History of the Problems of
Philosophy_, trans. by Monahan, vol. II, pp. 275-278; 305-307. ED.]

INDEX

ABSOLUTE IDEALISM: 46, 60, 99,
102, 134, 195, 256 ff., Essay XII.

ACTIVITY: x, Essay VI.

AFFECTIONAL FACTS: 34 ff., Essay
V, 217 ff.

AGNOSTICISM: 195.

APPRECIATIONS. _See_ AFFECTIONAL
FACTS.

BERGSON, H.: 156, 188.

BERKELEY: 10-11, 43, 76, 77, 212,
232.

BODE, B. H.: 234 ff.

BODY: 78, 84 ff., 153, 221.

BRADLEY, F. H.: 60, 98, 99, 100,
107 ff., 157, 162.

CAUSE: 163, 174, 181 ff.

CHANGE: 161.

COGNITIVE RELATION: 52 ff. _See
also_ under KNOWLEDGE.

CONCEPTS: 15 ff., 22, 33, 54 ff.,
65 ff.

CONJUNCTIVE RELATIONS: x, 44 ff.,
59, 70, 94, 104, 107 ff., 117 ff.,
163, 240.

CONSCIOUSNESS: xi, Essay I, 75,