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Dialectical movement of Realities.
that also with what is not. They are mere correlations. The thesis does not exist in and by itself but on the contrary in and through what is other than itself. In other words it can exist only as it denies or gives up any separate self-identical being and life, only as it finds its life in the larger life and being of the whole. Its true being is in ceasing to be and its true notion includes affirmation of its existence as well as denial of its existence. But this is not all. It involves the idea of growth or development; because denial is the life of reality. A thing stagnant altogether, not subject to changes, is no better than non-entity. Mere being in the sense of bare existence whose modifications are stagnant and not subject to phenomenal changes is a mere zero. “Pure Being” as Dr. Ward puts it “is equal to Nothing.” Being to be real in any sense of the term must be becoming or changing. Its ideal nature, therefore, must be synthetical comprehending and explaining all contradictory tendencies—the sharp antithesis merging in the wide universality of the
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