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Spinoza, the purely logical and psychological analysis of 

 what we mean by Eeality cannot advance, were it not 

 that we ourselves, in our own consciousness, possess an 

 example how the many is combined into one. Accord- 

 ingly this phenomenon of our conscious personality solves 

 for us, by analogy, the problem of Reality, and the highest 

 ideal which we can form of a conscious, mental, or 

 personal existence must be, for us, the definition of the 

 essence of the underlying ground of everything i.e., of the 

 truly Real. Formally, the one supreme Reality appears 

 to us in the form of a universal order or mechanism, the 

 nature of which we have to learn by experience and 

 observation ; actually, however, the sense or meaning of 

 this universal order or mechanism is the highest Good 

 or Worth, which we can conceive to exist only as a 

 personality or living Spirit. Of this living spirit, human 

 personalities, the human spirits which are in and around 

 us, are merely a dim reflection ; they only partake of 

 Reality, and are not real by and for themselves. 



The speculations of Lotze thus rise to a conception 

 which the higher religions have embraced through the ren 

 belief in a personal Deity, and to which the Christian cc 

 religion has given final expression and sanction. For the 

 reality that philosophy tries to grasp through an analysis 

 of our highest intuitions, by trying to understand their 

 meaning as well as the deeper sense of the world which 

 surrounds us (the Macrocosmus) and the world within us 

 (the Microcosmus) ; for that highest and deepest reality, 

 Religion, the " Metaphysic of the general or popular 

 mind," has already found certain terms and expressions 

 and embodied them in definite articles of faith. To 



