188 LIFE IN NATURE. 



greatly simplified ; every question is made easier by 

 all the difference there is between existing and 

 seeming to exist. And a division is made for us 

 beforehand of all inquiries that can arise a division 

 which more than halves their difficulty. How should 

 this appear? or, what is this appearance? we ask, 

 on the one hand ; and, on the other, why do we 

 feel it not only to appear, but to exist ? of which 

 the latter is ever answered for us ere we ask it. 



