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Rh that the philosopher perceives his solidest constructions to be but symbolic through and through, so that his world-formula, his spell-word, though it work more or less satisfactorily, never works out. In short, in philosophy, in science, in religion, the truth long ago dimly recognised by the medicine-man concerning the relativity of mana must always hold. Yet the secret of human power, relatively successful though it be, is ever the same—to demand more of the actual in the potent name of the ideal.