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idealism Huxley wrote: "It is that idealism which declares 

 the ultimate fact of all knowledge to be a consciousness, or in 

 other words, a mental phenomenon ; and therefore affirms the 

 highest of all certainties, and indeed the only absolute cer- 

 tainty, to be the existence of mind." 



123, 25. Locke: John Locke (1632-1704), an English philos- 

 opher and author of an Essay Concerning the Human Under- 

 standing. 



124, 18. Franciscus Bacon. See note on line 10, page 31. 

 The meaning of the sentence is "Thus thought Francis Bacon"; 

 sic cogitavi means " thus I thought." 



