AS TO OURSELVES 



an atom. Then in the realm of pure 

 physics all these things are also talked 

 about until we finally hear about little else 

 than the Ether, that wonderful something 

 which not the most vivid imagination can 

 connect with a bodily sense. Then when 

 further progress in this direction slackens, 

 the motor of mathematics is attached. 

 Helmholtz regretted that Faraday, not 

 being a mathematician like Clerk Max- 

 well, may have failed on that account to 

 achieve still greater triumphs in physics 

 than those which have made his name im- 

 mortal. But where do we find ourselves 

 now? Science can give only the same an- 

 swer with Philosophy we are in the 

 realm of pure mind. Back of anything 

 physical, and greater than anything physi- 

 cal, is the great fact of facts, Mind! And 

 is not Mind to be found elsewhere in this 

 Universe than on this little earth? 



This last question suggests another 

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