112 ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY 



All, instead of being merely subjective, are objective 

 also. 



The Kantian doctrine — that Space, Time, and 

 Causation are merely subjective — being thus disposed 

 of, its corollary of the empirical limitation of know- 

 ledge likewise falls away, and Hartmann assumes he 

 may proceed with his metaphysical programme. First, 

 however, the method of philosophy must be more pre- 

 cisely accentuated. Ho%v can knowledge of the Ab- 

 solute, which (as the Unconscious) lies wholly beyond 

 our consciousness, ever arise } By virtue of two 

 facts, replies Hartmann : our "mystic sense of union 

 with the Unconscious," and that uniformity of Nature 

 which constitutes the basis of induction. The orga- 

 non of philosophy has thus two factors, Mystic and 

 Induction. From the former come all the clues to 

 knowledge, the mysterious " suggestions " of the Un- 

 conscious itself ; from the latter, the verification of 

 the clues, as they are followed into the complicated 

 system of experience. It is by induction alone that 

 philosophy distinguishes itself from religion ; for re- 

 ligion and philosophy both alike take their origin 

 from the mystic of the "suggestions," though religion 

 keeps these mysterious whisperings in the obscure 

 but kindred form of myth, while philosophy, following 

 the self-revelation of Nature in induction, lays them 

 bare in their clear and literal truth. 



By the light of this method, now, the Unconscious 



