Monism 7 



from the errors of all preceding ages. Do 

 not think it, friend : it is not so. 



For what is this same " Monism ? " 



Professor Haeckel writes almost as if it 

 were a recent invention, but in truth there 

 have been many versions of it, and in one 

 form or another the idea is quite old, older 

 than Plato, as old as Parmenides. 



The name " Monism " should apply to 

 any philosophic system which assumes and 

 attempts to formulate the essential simplicity 

 and oneness of all the apparent diversity of 

 sensual impression and consciousness, any 

 system which seeks to exhibit all the com- 

 plexities of existence, both material and 

 mental the whole of phenomena, both 

 objective and subjective as modes of mani- 

 festation of one fundamental reality. 



According to the assumed nature of 

 that reality, different brands of monistic 

 theory exist : 



1. There is the hypothesis that every- 

 thing is an aspect of some unknown absolute 

 Reality, which itself, in its real nature, is 



