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reality, it is like a rich pattern woven in all the variegated colours of the rainbow in the web of consciousness, which explains the etymology of Arachne's name as well as the fact of the competition being held in the art of weaving. Arachne's parentage--she is the daughter of a famous dyer in purple-serves to indicate her relation to will, which, in virtue of its high aspirations and the power to achieve its end is the only factor which can be truthfully described as the maker of kings, converting, as it does, the 'white' of colourless, indifferent commonalty into the purple' of Royalty and Power.
As regards the punishment of Arachne, it is intended to describe the true nature of the faculty of finite *thought,' which, when stripped of the surplusage of false glory that has been added to it by the superabundant enthusiasm of some of its admirers, is but a simple weaver of presentations' in the warp and woof of consciousness. It is this very faculty which is described as intellect or understanding in modern thought, though we had better let Prof. Deussen explain its function to the 'uninitiated' masses. Writes the learned Professor (Elements of Metaphysics, pp. 25—29):
“Every representation contains as such two supplementary halves, a representing subject and a represented object. These two make with the representation not three (as a sneering epigram of Schiller has it), but one. No representation is without a subject, none without an object. Now, nothing exists for me but representations, therefore also no subject without an object, no object without a subject. All objects of my subject are such, either immediately or mediately. As immediate objects I can never have anything else but affections of my ego, that is, sensations within me (represented physiologically as certain specific irritations of the sensory nerves extended in the organs of sense). All other objects, the whole exter
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