Page:The World and the Individual, Second Series (1901).djvu/51

26 do; nor do I know more than the most insignificant fragment of the facts that express my will. In consequence, the problem of philosophy, as of life, is twofold: (1) A practical problem, viz. the problem, What am I seeking? What is the Self whose purpose is mine, and whose life is the world? — and (2) A theoretical problem, viz. How is this purpose expressed in the facts? Now our discussion will throughout undertake, so far as that is possible, to treat these two problems in close connection. But they will tend, at various points, to fall apart in the argument. In the present lecture, in dealing with the most fundamental Category of Experience, we shall indeed be able to show very explicitly that our acknowledgment of facts as real is determined by definite, and philosophically justified, practical motives. But when we pass on, in the next lecture, to more special categories, we shall be led to make a provisional sundering of the two points of view, viz. (1) that of our appreciative or more explicitly volitional consciousness, and (2) that of our descriptive or more theoretical, consciousness. We shall know indeed that the sundering is provisional; but under our human limitations, it will prove, in its own place, inevitable. It will be by means of a further definition of just these contrasted points of view that we shall be able to explain the relation between our belief in the physical world, and our belief in the minds of our fellow-men. We shall express the opposition of the two points of view by calling the realm of Being as our more abstractly theoretical consciousness defines it, the World of Description; while the world as otherwise interpreted is the world of Life, — the World of Appre-