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itself, not merely of the phenomenon, although 

 the latter only might enter into Knowledge. The 

 doctrine, however, which presents our conception 

 of Space as discovered in our activity amid resistant 

 transmutation-processes not only establishes its 

 ideality but at the same time explains the relation 

 which its form nevertheless bears to the objective 

 material laws of the sensible presentation. It 

 liberates the mind from the oppressive necessity 

 of regarding Space as still somehow objectively 

 extending and containing the real world. It also 

 relieves an obvious difficulty which confronts 

 the Philosophy of Schopenhauer in locating those 

 transcendental forms of the phenomenon which are 

 imposed a priori upon the presentation, and yet 

 are not to be found in the pure Volition. 



Of course, it must never be forgotten that my 

 whole sentient experience consists primarily of the 

 series of energetic transmutations occurring at that 

 part of the energetic system which is in immediate 

 vital relation with my consciousness. It is my 

 experience of active exertion, of moving, speaking, 

 etc., which gives a suggestion of the real energetic 

 world. The transmutations of the real Energy of 

 the world beyond my organism never enter my 

 Consciousness. Transmutations arising beyond my 

 body only enter the presentation by influencing 



