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CAP. II.] so obscured that it admits the idea of contraries? How can go away and yet not remain?


 * Being omnipresent.

How can speech exist and yet be impossible?


 * See p. 13.

" is obscured by our want of grasp. Speech is obscured by the gloss of this world.


 * I.e. by the one-sided meanings attached to words and phrases.

Hence the affirmatives and negatives of the Confucian and Mihist schools,


 * Mih Tzŭ was a philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who propounded various theories which were vigorously attacked by the Confucianists under Mencius. We shall hear more of him by-and-by.

each denying what the other affirmed and affirming what the other denied. But he who would reconcile affirmative with negative and negative with affirmative,


 * The "union of impossibilities," which Emerson credits to Plato alone.

must do so by the light of nature.


 * I.e. Have no established mental criteria, and thus see all things as ONE.

"There is nothing which is not objective: there is nothing which is not subjective. But it is impossible to start from the objective. Only from