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material universe, they conceive an impossibility, notwithstanding the fact that the proof of the existence of matter depends on its being perceived. '. It will save Idealism much trouble and humiliation to know that a fanatical insistence on the employment of wrong and inappropriate words in the description of things is only calculated to increase one's own difficulties, and that the use of such words as illusion and mâyâ actually tends to shut it out from a large department of scientific thought without which truth cannot be definitely distinguished from its antithesis, the untruth. It is true that the knowledge of the soul is the primary source of the highest good from which materialism is debarred by its denial of the very existence of spirit, as a substance separate and distinct from matter ; but it is equally true that only that which is free from doubt, error and ignorance, the three constituents of falsehood, is termed knowledge, whose cause can never be furthered, but is always obstructed, by a false and vicious terminology.
It is to be added that the materialist remains entangled in the meshes of delusion only so long as he does not recognise the nature of consciousness, and describes it as a product of matter. The moment he comes round to acknowledge consciousness as an independent reality, he will find the veil of matter, which is barring his further progress, torn away from before his eyes. He would then throw away his weights and measures, and scalpel and other instruments of research in the region of a purely material science, and find himself face to face with the Living Existence, and learn the truth. The Idealist
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