PHENOMENON AND NOUMENON 



actions, physical, mental, and moral, in accord- 

 ance with these relations, — it follows that the 

 philosophy whose character and scope I have 

 here indicated is sufficient for our highest needs. 

 And thus we are led to the conclusion that the 

 object of that metaphysical philosophy which 

 seeks to ascertain the nature of things in them- 

 selves is not only unattainable, but would have 

 no imaginable value, even if it could be attained. 

 The proper attitude of the mind, when face to 

 face with the Unknown Reality, is, therefore, 

 not a speculative, but an emotional attitude. It 

 belongs, as we shall by and by more distinctly 

 see, not to Philosophy, but to Religion. 



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