AS TO OURSELVES 



own personal existence is his certainty of 

 certainties, which will remain unshaken by 

 all warring theorists outside. 



Some persons regard any allusion to 

 mind as out of place in a scientific dis- 

 cussion, because science is concerned only 

 with sensible phenomena, and mind can 

 neither be tasted, smelt, seen, nor heard ; it 

 cannot be weighed, analyzed, resolved, 

 precipitated, measured, or spectroscoped. 

 But in this enumeration the tremendous 

 testimony of the greatest of the senses is 

 left out. Mind can be felt, so vividly 

 that compared with it all mere phenomena 

 are what this word originally meant, only 

 appearances. 



After all, the chief desire of the thing 

 doctrine advocates is the assurance of a 

 mindless, impersonal, and mechanically 

 produced universe. At all hazards, there- 

 fore, it must be shown that the mind of the 

 person, Man, is also of mechanical origin. 

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