CHAPTER XX 



THE New Dominant. 

 Inclusionism. 



In it we have a pseudo-standard. 



We have a datum, and we give it an interpretation, in accordance 

 with our pseudo-standard. At present we have not the delusions 

 of Absolutism that may have translated some of the positivists of 

 the nineteenth century to heaven. We are Intermediatists but feel 

 a lurking suspicion that we may some day solidify and dogmatize 

 and illiberalize into higher positivists. At present we do not ask 

 whether something be reasonable or preposterous, because we rec- 

 ognize that by reasonableness and preposterousness are meant agree- 

 ment and disagreement with a standard which must be a delusion 

 though not absolutely, of course and must some day be dis- 

 placed by a more advanced quasi-delusion. Scientists in the past 

 have taken the positivist attitude is this or that reasonable or 

 unreasonable? Analyze them and we find that they meant rela- 

 tively to a standard, such as Newtonism, Daltonism, Darwinism, or 

 Lyellism. But they have written and spoken and thought as if they 

 could mean real reasonableness and real unreasonableness. 



So our pseudo-standard is Inclusionism, and, if a datum be a 

 correlate to a more widely inclusive outlook as to this earth and 

 its externality and relations with externality, its harmony with 

 Inclusionism admits it. Such was the process, and such was the 

 requirement for admission in the days of the Old Dominant: our 

 difference is in underlying Intermediatism, or consciousness that 

 though we're more nearly real, we and our standards are only 

 quasi 



Or that all thingsin our intermediate state are phantoms in 

 a super-mind in a dreaming state but striving to awaken to real- 

 ness. 



Though in some respects our own Intermediatism is unsatisfac- 

 tory, our underlying feeling is 



That in a dreaming mind awakening is accelerated if phantoms 

 in that mind know that they're only phantoms in a dream. Of 



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