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…ense. What is the moon made of? Science replies ‘Green Cheese.” For our one moon we have now two ideas: Greenness, and Cheese. Greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. Cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow. “Deeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things !” Shall we cut the Gordian knot? shall we say “There is God”? What, in the devil’s name, is God? If (with Moses) we picture Him as an old man showing us His back parts, who shall blame us? The great Question 11g
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
…f the Laws of Thought, the irritating sceptic will have many more remarks to make: for it now appears that the proof that thought exists depends upon the truth of that which is thought, to say no more. We have taken Cogitatur, to try and avoid the use of esse; but 4 is A involves that very idea, and the proof is fatally flawed. Cogitatur depends on £s¢ ; and there’s no avoiding it. Til Shall we get on any better if we investigate this Ast— Something is—Existence is—nmx vw rae ? 116
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
… not essential; relative, and not absolute. We go deeper and deeper, then, it seems, from the One into the Many. Our primary proposition depends no longer upon itself, but upon the whole complex being of man, poor, disputing, muddle-headed man! Man with all his limitations and ignorance ; man—man! 118
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…er. Is the division between them in our brain a proof of the total incapacity of that organ, or is there some flaw in our logic? For all depends upon our logic ; not upon the simple identity A is A only, but upon its whole structure from the question of simple propositions, enormously difficult from the moment when it occurred to the detestable genius that invented 117
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…ading to the blank wall—what is mind ? Even so, the relation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114