264 CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE 



history. Yet in the knowledge of the course and 

 method of our experience, they will hold that we 

 are far from the domain proper of philosophy. 

 Experience, they say, is just the historic achieve 

 ment of finite individuals; it tells the tale of ap 

 proach to the treasures of truth, of partial vic 

 tory, but larger defeat, in laying hold of the 

 treasure. But, they say, reality is not the path 

 to reality, and record of devious wanderings in the 

 path is hardly a safe account of the goal. Psychol 

 ogy, in other words, may tell us something of how 

 we mortals lay hold of the world of things and 

 truths ; of how we appropriate and assimilate its 

 contents ; and of how we react. It may trace the 

 issues of such approaches and apprehensions upon 

 the course of our own individual destinies. But it 

 cannot wisely ignore nor sanely deny the distinc 

 tion between these individual strivings and achieve 

 ments, and the &quot; Reality &quot; that subsists and sup 

 ports its own structure outside these finite futilities. 

 The processes by which we turn over The Reality 

 into terms of our fragmentary unconcluded, in 

 conclusive experiences are so extrinsic to the Real 

 ity itself as to have no revealing power with refer 

 ence to it. There is the ordo ad universum, the 

 subject of philosophy; there is the ordo ad irir 

 dividuum, the subject of psychology. 



Some such assumption as this lies latent, I am 

 convinced, in all forswearings of the kinship of 



