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hope to have you willingly follow. But fortunately 

 we can argue here ex exernplo. It will be sufficient 

 for our purpose to establish the reality of a single 

 thread of such a priori or self-active knowing. And 

 this it is simplest to do in the case of such a con- 

 stituent element in our experience as, for instance, 

 Time or Space. For these elements, as we all know, 

 are the " containing " conditions of the whole of our 

 sense-perceptive life ; indeed, of the whole physical 

 world, upon whose decay and destructibility all our 

 fears of death, and of extinction through death, are 

 founded. It will be most pertinent, moreover, to 

 confine ourselves to the single element of Time 

 alone, as it is in this that we find nearest at hand 

 the medium of union between the physical and the 

 psychic series in our experience, and thence the 

 means for connecting both with the unity of our real 

 self. 



We return, then, to the strict concomitance of the 

 two series, as all that can in exact science be meant 

 by the functional relation between the brain and the 

 sense-perceptive consciousness. And we ask, Must 

 one stop with this mere parallelism of the physical 

 and the psychic .■* — must we rest in it as an obsti- 

 nate and impenetrable fact.? That we must, is the 

 ordinary dictum of the proclamatory "new" or 

 "objective" or "physiological" psychology — the 

 two "parallel" series are there, and nobody can get 



