MATTER AND SPIRIT 



are regarded as absolutely unknown and un- 

 knowable, then to translate units of feeling into 

 them is to translate the known into the un- 

 known, which is absurd. And if they are what 

 they are supposed to be by those who identify 

 them with their symbols, then the difficulty of 

 translating units of feeling into them is insur- 

 mountable : if Force as it objectively exists is 

 absolutely alien in nature from that which ex- 

 ists subjectively as Feeling, then the transfor- 

 mation of Force into Feeling is unthinkable. 

 Either way, therefore, it is impossible to inter- 

 pret inner existence in terms of outer existence. 

 Buf if, on the other hand, units of Force as 

 they exist objectively are essentially the same 

 in nature with those manifested subjectively as 

 units of Feeling, then a conceivable hypothesis 

 remains open. Every element of that aggre- 

 gate of activities constituting a consciousness is 

 known as belonging to consciousness only by 

 its cohesion with the rest. Beyond the limits 

 of this coherent aggregate of activities exist ac- 

 tivities quite independent of it, and which can- 

 not be brought into it. We may imagine, then, 

 that by their exclusion from the circumscribed 

 activities constituting consciousness, these outer 

 activities, though of the same intrinsic nature, 

 become antithetically opposed in aspect. Being 

 disconnected from consciousness, or cut off by 

 its limits, they are thereby rendered foreign to 

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