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anticipatory welcome or dread of the trait to fol 

 low. 



This claim cannot be dismissed as trivial. If 

 valid, it carries with it the distance between being 

 and knowing: and the recognition of an element of 

 mediation, that is, of art, in all knowledge. This 

 disparity, this transcendence, is not something 

 which holds of our knowledge, of finite knowledge, 

 just marking the gap between our type of con 

 sciousness and some other with which we may con 

 trast it after the manner of the agnostic or the 

 transcendentalist (who hold so much property in 

 joint ownership!), but exists because knowing is 

 knowing, that way of bringing things to bear upon 

 things which we call reflection a manipulation of 

 things experienced in the light one of another. 



&quot; Feeling,&quot; I read in a recent article, &quot; feeling 

 is immediately acquainted with its own quality, 

 with its own subjective being.&quot; 1 How and whence 

 this duplication in the inwards of feeling into feel- 



1 1 must remind the reader again of a point already sug 

 gested. It is the identification of presence in consciousness 

 (With knowledge as such that leads to setting up a mind 

 (ego, subject) which has the peculiar property of knowing 

 (only so often it knows wrong!), or else that leads to 

 supplying &quot; sensations &quot; with the peculiar property of sur 

 veying their own entrails. Given the correct feeling that 

 knowledge involves relationship, there being, by supposition, 

 no other thing to which the thing in consciousness is related, 

 it is forthwith related to a soul substance, or to its ghostly 

 offspring, a &quot;subject,&quot; or to &quot;consciousness&quot; itself. 



