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 is, as I view it, that on the one hand the great body, or the corpse as I should call it, of so-called physical reality, has been cut off and set over against the living nature of mind—which is reduced, as we saw, to a scheme of directions of effort addressed to objects outside them. But on the other hand, just because this is done so thoroughly, it by inherent necessity shows signs of life, and begins to exhibit within itself a vitality, primarily logical, but, for this reason, ultimately and in essence involving continuity with a psychical system.

(i.) First, a word as to the analogy of the two spatial things, on which the whole position is founded. One cannot be too careful at the beginning; and I shall make an observation which may be held trivial and hypercritical, but which, I am inclined to think, will lead us in the end to quite a different attitude towards the whole relation of mind and its objects.

The remark is merely this; that mind is never confronted by one object only. The