The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK the Academic Scepticism is a wholesale firm, I hope !—and practically, I challenge you to draw valid distinctions. All these are states of the consciousness of man; and if you seek to destroy one, all fall together. VII I must, at the risk of appearing to digress, insist upon this distinction between philosophical and practical points of view, or (in Qabalistic language) between Kether and Malkuth. In private conversation I find it hard—almost impossible— to get people to understand what seems to me so very simple a point. I shall try to make it exceptionally clear. A boot is an illusion. A hat is an illusion. Therefore, a boot is a hat. So argue my friends, not distributing the middle term. But thus argue I. All boots are illusions. All hats are illusions. Therefore (though it is not a syllogism), all boots and hats are illusions. Tadd: To the man in Kether no illusions matter. Therefore: To the man in Kether neither boots nor hats matter. In fact, the man in Kether is out of all relation to these boots and hats. 125