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We may put, then, the analogy in terms of a con- 

 tinuous proportion, and say that the hypnotic or 

 dream-consciousness is to the normal, as the normal 

 is to the ultimate. And in each case the lower is 

 related to the higher as the actual to the potential : 

 while we sleep our dream-consciousness is all that 

 is actual and our waking self exists only potentially ; 

 while we live on earth our normal consciousness 

 alone is actual and our true selves are the ideals of 

 unrealized aspirations. 



And thus to philosophy, as to religion, its reproach 

 has become its glory. Just as the Cross has become 

 the symbol of religious hope, so philosophy has 

 answered the taunts that truth is a dream and God 

 a hallucination, by gathering truth from dreams, and 

 by tracing the method of God's working through 

 hallucinations. 



§ 26. But though the '* objective world" be a 

 hallucination, subjective in its mode of genesis, it is 

 not on that account without a meaning, without a 

 purpose. Not even our own casual and disconnected 

 hallucinations are without connection with the real 

 world, without the most direct significance for our 

 real life. Still less can this be the case with the 

 material world : it must be possible to determine 

 the teleological significance of Matter, and of the 

 phenomenal selves incarnated in it. For it is neces- 

 sary, on metaphysical grounds, to endorse the 

 protest which is generally made in the interests of 

 Materialism, against the separation of Body and 

 Soul, the dualism of Matter and Spirit, and to wel- 

 come the accumulating proofs of their complete 

 correspondence and interdependence. 



For the universe is one ; Body and Soul, Matter 

 and Spirit are but different aspects, the outside and 



