TRUTH 



philosophy ; in my opinion it should be a return to nat- 

 ure. As a fact, the return to Kant and his famous 

 theory of knowledge is an unfortunate "crab-walk" on 

 the part of philosophy. Our modern metaphysicians 

 regard the brain, as Kant did one hundred and twenty 

 years ago, as a mysterious, whitish-gray, pulpy mass, 

 the significance of which as an instrument of the mind 

 is very enigmatic and obscure. But for modern biology 

 the brain is the most wonderful structure in nature, a 

 compound of innumerable soul-cells or neurona. These 

 have a most elaborate finer structure, are combined in a 

 vast psychic apparatus by thousands of interlacing nerve- 

 fibrils, and are thus fitted to accomplish the highest men- 

 tal functions. 



First Table 



ANTITHESIS OP THE TWO WAYS OF ATTAINING 

 - ! THE TRUTH 



Monistic Theory op Knowl- 

 edge 



1 . Knowledge is a natural proc- 



ess, not a miracle. 



2. Knowledge, as a natural 



process, is subject to the 

 general law of substance. 



3. Knowledge is a physiological 



process, with the brain for 

 its anatomic organ. 



4. The part of the human brain 



in which knowledge is 

 exclusively engendered 

 is a definite and limited 

 part of the cortex, the 

 phronema. 



5. The organ of knowledge, or 



the phronema, consists of 

 the association - centres, 

 and differs by its special 

 histological structure from 

 the neighboring sensory 

 and motor centres in the 

 cortex, and it is in close 

 relation with these. 



DuALiSTic Theory op Knowl- 

 edge 



1. Knowledge is a supernatural 



process, a miracle. 



2. Knowledge, as a transcen- 



dental process, is not sub- 

 ject to the law of sub- 

 stance. 



3. Knowledge is not a physio- 



logical, but a purely spirit- 

 tial, process. 



4. The part of the human brain 



which seems to act as 

 organ of knowledge is 

 really only the instrument 

 that allows the spiritual 

 process to appear. 



5. The organ of knowledge, or 



the phronema (the sum of 

 the association - centres) , 

 is merely a part of the 

 instrument of mind, like 

 the neighboring and corre- 

 lated sensory and motor- 

 centres. 



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