EXPERIENCE AND OBJECTIVE 

 IDEALISM * 



TDEALISM as a philosophic system stands in 

 - such a delicate relation to experience as to in 

 vite attention. In its subjective form, or sensa 

 tionalism, it claims to be the last word of empiri- 

 cism. In its objective, or rational form, it claims 

 to make good the deficiencies of the subjective type, 

 by emphasizing the work of thought that supplies p- 

 the factors of objectivity and universality lacking 

 in sensationalism. With reference to experience 

 a$ it now is, such idealism is half opposed to em 

 piricism and half committed to it, antagonistic, 

 so far as existing experience is regarded as tainted 

 with a sensational character; favorable, so far as 

 this experience is even now prophetic of some final,, 

 all-comprehensive, or absolute experience, which 

 in truth is one with reality. 



That this combination of opposition to present 

 experience with devotion to the cause of experience 



1 Reprinted, with slight verbal changes, from the Philo 

 sophical Review, Vol. XV. (1906). 



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