Again, I know I am exhibiting my mental grossness. But again, _Ich kann nicht anders._ I show my feelings; why _will_ they not show theirs? I know they _have_ a personal feeling about the through-and-through universe, which is entirely different from mine, and which I should very likely be much the better for gaining if they would only show me how. Their persistence in telling me that feeling has nothing to do with the question, that it is a pure matter of absolute reason, keeps me for ever out of the pale. Still seeing a _that_ in things which Logic does not expel, the most I can do is to _aspire_ to the expulsion. At present I do not even aspire. Aspiration is a feeling. What can kindle feeling but the example of feeling? And if the Hegelians _will_ refuse to set an example, what can they expect the rest of us to do? To speak more seriously, the one _fundamental_ quarrel Empiricism has with Absolutism is over this repudiation by Absolutism of the personal and æsthetic factor in the construction of philosophy. That we all of us have feelings, Empiricism feels quite sure. That they may be as prophetic and anticipatory of truth as anything else we have, and some of them more so than others, can not possibly be denied. But what hope is there of squaring and settling opinions unless Absolutism will hold parley on this common ground; and will admit that all philosophies are hypotheses, to which all our faculties, emotional as well as logical, help us, and the truest of which will at the final integration of things be found in possession of the men whose faculties on the whole had the best divining power? FOOTNOTES: [140] [Reprinted from _Mind_, vol. IX, No. 34, April, 1884.] [141] [In 1884.] [142] ["Life and Mechanism," _Mind_, vol. IX, 1884.] [143] [_Cf._ P. Janet and G. Séailles: _History of the Problems of Philosophy_, trans. by Monahan, vol. II, pp. 275-278; 305-307. ED.] INDEX ABSOLUTE IDEALISM: 46, 60, 99, 102, 134, 195, 256 ff., Essay XII. ACTIVITY: x, Essay VI. AFFECTIONAL FACTS: 34 ff., Essay V, 217 ff. AGNOSTICISM: 195. APPRECIATIONS. _See_ AFFECTIONAL FACTS. BERGSON, H.: 156, 188. BERKELEY: 10-11, 43, 76, 77, 212, 232. BODE, B. H.: 234 ff. BODY: 78, 84 ff., 153, 221. BRADLEY, F. H.: 60, 98, 99, 100, 107 ff., 157, 162. CAUSE: 163, 174, 181 ff. CHANGE: 161. COGNITIVE RELATION: 52 ff. _See also_ under KNOWLEDGE. CONCEPTS: 15 ff., 22, 33, 54 ff., 65 ff. CONJUNCTIVE RELATIONS: x, 44 ff., 59, 70, 94, 104, 107 ff., 117 ff., 163, 240. CONSCIOUSNESS: xi, Essay I, 75, 80, 127 ff., 139 ff., 154, 184, Essay VIII. CONTINUITY: 48 ff., 59, 70, 94. DEMOCRITUS: 11. DESCARTES: 30. DEWEY, J.: 53, 156, 191, 204, 247, 260. DISJUNCTIVE RELATIONS: x, 42 ff., 105, 107 ff. DUALISM: 10, 207 ff., 225, 257. EMPIRICISM: iv-v, vii-xiii, 41, 46-47, Essay XII. _See also_ under RADICAL EMPIRICISM. EPISTEMOLOGY: 239. _See also_ under KNOWLEDGE.