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the reader has become thoroughly weary of the world of doubt, we are only glad of the fact. Armed with a gemiine philosophy, a man may indeed go back to that world, and find in it an expression of ideal truth in empirical form. We hope to have such a right ourselves in time; but, without a well thought out philosophy, a man venturing into the world of empirical facts to find there any religious significance actually discovers himself to be in a nest of hornets; and he deserves as much. We desired to bring the reader to feel this with us; else our own prudent flight from that world to another might seem to him unnecessary. Now we are ready to come nearer to our former question. What right has any one to assume that empirical external world at all as having any absolute truth? “O thou that hast troubled us,” we may say, “what art thou at bottom more than our own assumption?” What right has that external world to be the sole region