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truths of science and the efforts of life ; it occupied a 

 region by itself. Schopenhauer had learned from Kant, 

 Fichte, and Schelling, to consider the Will or the active 

 principle as the most important, the primary factor in the 

 human soul. He further agreed with Kant in considering 

 the space- and time-forms of sense- impression and the 

 logical forms of the intellect as having their origin in the 

 human soul; but, as he exaggerated the doctrine of 

 the primacy of the human Will to mean that the 

 essence of the human mind was " Will," he saw in the 

 human intellect a creation of the Will. And, as 

 he judged of everything outside of self by analogy with 

 the self or human mind, he further exaggerated the 

 term Will to mean not only the fundamental essence 

 of human nature but the essence of all reality. Con- 

 sistently he looked upon that portion of reality which 

 was devoid of intelligence as exhibiting the activity or 

 creative power of the Will in forms and stages inferior, 

 but leading up, to the highest manifestation of the Will 

 when it is joined to the Intellect. As he expressed it, 

 everything in the world is an objectivation of the Will ; 

 the highest form of this process of objectivation is to 

 be found in the Intellect or the world as seen through 

 the senses and through the forms of thought. 



Whoever is led by inclination, study, or practical 

 experience to look at the active powers of the mind as 

 fundamental and all -important is face to face with 

 the ethical problem. This problem contains two great 

 difficulties or mysteries : the mystery of the Freedom 

 of the Will and the mystery of Evil and Sin. Schopen- 

 hauer had no difficulty in solving the former, and he 



