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greater fulness from remoter and remoter confines, 

 to be shed forth again, with increase, and farther and 

 farther. 



Consciousness and universe are in truth but two 

 names for the same single and indissoluble Fact, 

 named in the one case as if from within it, and in 

 the other as if from without. Not that in every con- 

 scious focus all the contents of this universe are at 

 any temporal moment imaged with the same clear- 

 ness or reflected forth with the same energy as in 

 every other ; only that, dim or bright, strong or fee- 

 ble, confused or distinct, the same Whole is in some- 

 wise always there. Nor is it to be overlooked, that, 

 to the fulfilment of each mind's universe-conscious- 

 ness, it is essential that the consciousness be not 

 simply a private but a social, an historic, and, in fact, 

 an immortal consciousness. 



The satisfactory and convincing grounds for this 

 conception, it is not in place to enter upon here with 

 any detail.^ Let it for the occasion be enough to 

 say that the interpretation of the facts of ordinary 

 consciousness into their implying this Social Uni- 

 versal might be the business and achievement of a 

 genuine and completed Critique of Reason. Such a 

 critique would proceed to the adequate explanation 

 not only of the a priori categories, of which since 



1 For a fuller i)roof of it, see the essay on " The Harmony of Deter- 

 mination and I'reedoni," pp. 326-359, below. 



