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onward in perpctmLin, exercising forever our inherent 

 power of framing experience, of begetting worlds of 

 sense-coloured variety and definiteness, in their long 

 career surely of higher and higher subtilty, refine- 

 ment, beauty, and goodness. 



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But you may now not unreasonably ask for some 

 clearer exhibit of the steps by which this conviction 

 is reached. So far, our argument must be admitted 

 to have achieved, explicitly, nothing more than this 

 — to connect our experience, our psychic history of 

 sensible states, with the active unity of our oivn 

 minds, each for itself, in contrast to connecting our 

 consciousness, as Professor James does, with the 

 "mother sea," the one and only Mind, or the eternal 

 many minds not oitrs. As yet, then, we have done 

 no more than shift the mere hope or chance for 

 continuance from that diffused "white radiance of 

 eternity" to these our ov;n eternal centres of light. 

 Two things it is therefore natural to ask : 



(i) How do the results we have just established 

 carry us beyond the mere possibility to the positive 

 fact of human immortality ? 



(2) How does our connecting the two concomitant 

 series of experiences with the individual being of each 

 soul, lead to the knowledge that wc are not only the 



