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What, then, must we do ? It is hardly doubtful 

 that if we are to make any progress we must find 

 another and a new key whereby to unlock the 

 double door that bars the entrance to the inner 

 shrine of truth. 



Now the fundamental, or at least a fundamental 

 error characteristic of all these various efforts after 

 a solution is to be found in the fact that they view 

 the World as a static thing rather than as a kinetic 

 process. 



The World to vision seems a great still thing in 

 or on which no doubt innumerable bodies are 

 moving to and fro, but which itself the funda- 

 mental thing is solid and unchanging. But this 

 is an illusion. The seemingly unchanging features 

 are changeless only in the monotony of their con- 

 stant mutation. 



Cohering masses are rigid in respect only of the 

 constancy of the dynamic process of transmutation 

 in which cohesion consists. The sun shines eternally 

 steady only in consequence of the ceaseless kinetic 

 energies which give it being. 



What we are ever doing in rational Discourse, 

 what Knowledge constantly accomplishes, is to fur- 

 nish an account, a reproduction of a series of 

 operations. The World is a process an activity. 

 That was recognised as long ago as the days of 



