I70 ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY 



qiialityy of our human intelligence. From the Kan- 

 tian doctrine of the a priori carried to its genuine 

 completion, as we have now seen it, we infer that 

 the objects which present themselves in course of 

 the normal and critical action of human conscious- 

 ness are all that objects as objects can be; that 

 beyond or beneath what completed human reason 

 (moral, of course, as well as perceptive and reflective) 

 finds in objects and their relations, or can and will 

 find, there is nothing to he found ; that our universe 

 is tJie universe, which exists, so far as we know it, 

 precisely as we know it, and indeed in and tJirough 

 our knowing it, though not merely by that. To 

 state the case more technically, the cognition be- 

 longing to each mind is the indispensable condition 

 of the existence of reality, though it is not the com- 

 pletely sufficient condition. If one asks. What then 

 is this sufficient condition, the answer is. The con- 

 sensus of the whole system of minds, including the 

 Supreme Mind, or God. 



The process which has led us to this result, and 

 which might justifiably be called a Critique of all Scep- 

 ticism, yields also the final impossibility of material- 

 ism in a still clearer way than we noticed before. 

 We saw, some distance back, that the actual of sense 

 could by no possibility be the source oi consciousness, 

 being, on the contrary, its mere phenomenon — its 

 mere externalised presentation (picture-object) origi- 



