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tinguishes between the pile of bricks and mortar and the 

 heap of rubbish into which any earthquake might convert 

 it, and which would not be worth removing were it not 

 for the fragments of the destroyed edifice which it con- 

 tains. What was it that converted the Rosetta Stone, 

 through the discovery of Thomas Young, from a simple 

 piece of building material into the corner-stone of the 

 great edifice of the science of Hieroglyphics ? Surely 

 something has been added to all these small and insig- 

 nificant objects to raise them to the position of interest, 

 not to say veneration, which they occupy in our estimate. 

 19, We feel that thev have got a reality which thev did not 



Reality 



thou d ht y P ossess i n themselves ; they have, in some mysterious 



things" 1 manner, become the repository of human thought, of the 



very essence of the human mind ! Is it not important 



to ask the question : Whence came this added reality 



and what is its nature ? 



We come thus upon another definition of the object 

 and aim of philosophy as distinguished from science. 

 This definition is suggested by the twofold meaning of 

 the words " real " and " reality." It furnishes one, and 

 perhaps the most remarkable, instance of the twofold 

 aspect which many words of language present to us. It 

 is evident that, to find the meaning of the word " real," 

 we have to look not only outside but likewise inside our 

 own selves. No external examination, by all the methods 

 of science, would reveal to us anything but the most 

 unimportant side or portion of the reality which belongs 

 to any of the objects just referred to. In order to get 

 hold of the much more important side of this reality, we 

 have to resort to a variety of mental processes, of inner 



