From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



answer to these enigmas from an intuition that is neces- 

 sarily limited and fallible, not in puerile ' initiations,' 

 nor in obsolete dogmas. It will await the complete 

 answers from the continuous development of conscious- 

 ness. It knows that there will come a time when this 

 consciousness, grown to its full stature, will be able 

 to transcend all its limitations, to attain to what is now 

 inaccessible, to understand what is now incomprehensible 

 the thing in itself the Infinite and God. 



For the present and henceforward the mind may 

 find in this sketch of a scientific philosophy a satisfaction 

 as yet unknown, for this outline results from a calculation 

 of probabilities based on facts> and in accord with all the 

 facts. 



It seems impossible that the concurrence of so many 

 facts should result in an error in generalisation, that 

 so many well-established and irrefutable premises should 

 lead to a false conclusion. 



As Schopenhauer wrote: 



' The theory which can decipher the relations 

 between the world and all things that it contains, 

 should find the warrant of its truth in the unity so 

 established between the many different natural 

 phenomena a unity which is not apparent apart 

 from that theory. When we have to deal with 

 an inscription whose alphabetical characters are 

 unknown, we make successive trials until we 

 reach a combination that gives intelligible words and 

 coherent sentences. No doubt then remains that 

 the decipherment is correct, for it is impossible to 

 suppose that the unity established among the written 

 signs could be due to chance, or could come about 

 by assigning any other value to the letters. In the 

 same way the reading of the world-cipher should 

 carry its own proof. It should shed its equal light 

 on all terrestrial phenomena, and bring the most 



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