208 EXPERIENCE AND IDEALISM 



be a triangle. The first of the meanings is intelli 

 gible, and marks a definite contribution to the logic 

 of science. But it is not &quot;objective idealism&quot;; 

 it is a contribution to a revised empiricism. The 

 second is a dark saying. 



That organization of some sort exists in every 

 experience I make no doubt. That isolation, dis 

 crepancy, the fragmentary, the incompatible, are 

 brought to recognition and to logical function only 

 with reference to some prior existential mode of 

 organization seems clear. And it seems equally 

 clear that reflection goes on with profit only be 

 cause the materials with which it deals have al 

 ready some degree of organization, or exemplify 

 various relationships. As against Hume, or even 

 Locke, we may be duly grateful to Kant for en 

 forcing acknowledgment of these facts. But the 

 acknowledgment means simply an improved and 

 revised empiricism. 



For, be it noted, this organization, first, is not 

 the work of reason or thought, unless &quot; reason &quot; be 

 stretched beyond all identification; and, secondly, 

 it has no sacrosanct or finally valid and worth- 

 f ul character. ( 1 ) Experience always carries with 

 it and within it certain systematized arrangements, 

 certain classifications (using the term without in- 

 tellectualistic prejudice), coexistent and serial. If 

 we attribute these to &quot; thought &quot; then the structure 

 of the brain of a Mozart which hears and combines 



