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ago I asked to explain how at this time of day a philosophy so utterly absurd as that of Hegel was in full sway in English academic circles, whilst long ago it had died out at the German universities, told me that he did not wonder at it in the least. The English mind was so absolutely practical that for a philosophy it needed something absurd in the highest degree, because it^ would at once pull to pieces every reasonable philosophy offered'. The Hindu, on the other hand, has earned an enormous reputation for specula- tive metaphysics and transcendental idealism. In short, the type of mentality which we encounter among Hindus is in many ways typical of that of obsessional states, while their general level ot thought partakes of the variety usually peculiar to children. Whether the Hindu mind is capable of any further approximination to reality is a matter which the future alone can show.

Received March 20, 1920.

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