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case, instead of acquiring aid and support from 

 belief, resolve it into one of its own preordained 

 creatures, making a desert and calling it harmony, 

 unity, totality. 1 



Philosophy has dreamed the dream of a knowl 

 edge which is other than the propitious outgrowth 

 of beliefs that shall develop aforetime their ul 

 terior implications in order to recast them, to 

 rectify their errors, cultivate their waste places, 

 heal their diseases, fortify their feeblenesses: the 

 ? dream of a knowledge that has to do with objects 

 having no nature save to be known. 



Not that their philosophers have admitted the 

 concrete readability of their scheme. On the 



1 Since writing the above I have read the following words 

 of a candidly unsympathetic friend of philosophy: &quot;Neither 

 philosophy nor science can institute man s relation to the 

 universe, because such reciprocity must have existed before 

 any kind of science or philosophy can begin; since each 

 investigates phenomena by means of the intellect, and in 

 dependent of the position and feeling of the investigator; 

 whereas the relation of man to the universe is denned, not 

 by the intellect alone, but by his sensilive perception aided 

 by all his spiritual powers. However much one may assure 

 and instruct a man that all real existence is an idea, that 

 matter is made up of atoms, that the essence of life is cor- 

 porality or will, that heat, light, movement, electricity, are 

 different manifestations of one and the same energy, one 

 cannot thereby explain to a being with pains, pleasures, 

 hopes, and fears his position in the universe.&quot; Tolstoi, essay 

 on &quot; Religion and Morality,&quot; in &quot; Essays, Letters, and Mis 

 cellanies.&quot; 



