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 328 J. S. MACKENZIE : THE NEW IDEALISM, ETC. Plato, and Hegel are opened, they will be read with a criti- cal eye. But what I mean is that we have to learn to take the more objective view of our experience, if our world is ever to become really intelligible to us. That it can, in this present life, become completely intelligible to us, I by no means affirm. It is only at the end of the process and I think it must have an end that we can hope to see things truly. Here, I confess in this present embodiment we are still in the dust and heat of the forward march ; and our best theories are only a sort of working hypotheses.