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SO perverse that the environment changes more rapidly 

 than adaptation takes place. 



§ 20. The Ideal of Goodness. The moral vaUie of life 

 would only aggravate its misery. But goodness is as 

 impossible "as happiness : depends on the proportion 

 between the moral ideal and actual conduct. If then 

 the moral ideal is capable of infinite growth, it is un- 

 attainable, and we fall farther and further short of it. 



§ 21. The Ideal of Beauty. The sense of beauty tlie 

 least developed ; its conflict with the other ideals ; 

 makes us sensitive to the ugliness of ordinary life. 



§ 22. The Ideal of lOiowledge. It, like the rest, re- 

 quires a fixed environment, and so baffled by the Be- 

 coming of the world. § 23. But the success of Pessimism 

 may be due to the rejection of metaphysics. 



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 Chapter V. Reconstruction .... . 133 



§ I. Result so far to prove that metaphysics alone can 

 answer Pessimism, though, § 2, even that will only be 

 an alternative. No direct answer to Scepticism or 

 Pessimism possible. But if philosophy can solve all the 

 problems of life, it may be esteemed successful. The 

 three great characteristics of life to be accounted for. 

 § 3. The one indisputable fact and basis of philosophy, 

 viz., the reality of the Self. Attacked in vain by Hume, 

 and by Kant (§ 4). § 5. The Self as the concrete union 

 of thought and feeling rises superior to the sceptical attack 

 on knowledge, and suggests that the ideals of thought 

 are nearer to truth than sensible reality, and that the 

 change of the real may be due to its striving after the 

 ideal. § 6. The necessary anthropomorphism of all 

 thought ; choice only between good and bad. § 7. The 

 bad either false or confused. § 8. The confused 

 anthropomorphism of science, and, § 9, the ideal of 

 true anthropomorphism : to show how all things are of 

 like nature with the mind. 



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§ I. Epistemological and psychological methods must 

 be rejected, as they do not take the mind in its historical 

 context. Hence, § 2, the method must be either meta- 



