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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to complicate the intertexture by introducing, even at this point, the theological element ? There have been Atheistic as well as Theistic Idealists; there have been Theistic as well as Atheistic Empiricists; there are in the world some whom rough popular speech does not hesitate to describe as Transcendental Atheists; and, as there have been examples of what might be called Theistic Materialism in the past, what if something still describable by that name should exist somewhere at present, throwing stones both at Atheism and Pantheism ? III. THE ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE. Mind or Consciousness, whatever it may be, is that organism in the midst of all things through which all our knowledge of all things must come. Philosophers, therefore, may make a study of that; and they have done so under the name of Psychology. Round this organism, howsoever related to it, is the vast and varied Cosmos, or phsenomenal and historical Universe,which the organism reports to us as hung in Space and voyaging through Time. Philosophers may make a study of that; and such a study would be Cosmology. But, beyond this whole phaenomenal Universe or Cosmos which has the Mind of Man in its midst, it has been the passion of Philosophy to assert or speculate a transcendent Universe, or Empyrean of Things in Themselves, of Essential Causes, of Absolute or Noumenal, as distinct from Phaenomenal, Existence. What enspheres the Cosmos, what supports it, of what Absolute Reality underneath and beyond itself is it significant, of what Absolute Meaning is it the expression, the allegory, the poem ? May not the entire Phenomenal Cosmos, hung in Space and voyaging through Time, be but an illusion?and this whether we consider it to be, within itself, a play of Matter alone, or of Spirit alone, or of both Matter and ...
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