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 the metaphor—absorb its tenets into a completer view—is just what remains to be seen. I proceed to describe in its broad characteristic features a realist doctrine of the twentieth century, which is promulgated from this University. We have briefly referred to a conception in which, so to speak, the universe is mental—is mind or states of mind—through and through, and we now turn to this realism because it is prima facie the completest conceivable counter stroke to any such affirmation, and because, through its very completeness, it suggests a meeting of extremes which the commoner doctrines, resting on a more half-hearted demarcation of the psychical and physical provinces, inevitably exclude. Yet other twentieth century realisms, though less—may I say it?—less paradoxically thorough-going, may be seen, in the light of that which is here discussed, to corroborate its fundamental lessons.

As I understand the thesis, in order to grasp the distinction between mind and its