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really its re-interpretation. The so called 'bloodless categories' of the old idealism of Kant and Hegel did not satisfy the full-blooded European very long, and complaints soon began to be heard that Hegel's philosophy besides being false to facts was too abstract to serve as 'human nature's daily food.' This gave rise to attacks from within as well as from without, creating numerous forms of Idealism and Realism. Croce's work has covered many branches of Philosophy including Art, but the problem with which we are concerned in the present review is the problem of knowledge and Reality. According to Croce, there are no objects of sense and no independent sense data outside the mind: which thus becomes the all inclusive and the only reality ; in this sense the rational is real and the real rational: in the language of Vedānta Ea and faa are one. A logical corollary of this proposition is the identity of Philosophy and
* सा तत्र ददृशे विश्वं जगत् स्थास्नु च खं दिशः साद्रिद्वीपाब्धिभूगोलं सवाय्वनीन्दुतारकम् । ज्योतिश्चक्रं जलं तेनो नभस्वान् वियदेव च वैकारिकाणीन्द्रियाणि मनो मात्रा गुणात्रयः ॥
The leader of the Bhāgavat will semember how Balarāma complained to mother Yasoda that Krsna had eaten claywhereupon mother asked Kyshņa if it was so Křshṇa denied the charge, and when asked to open his mouth, he opened it. And what did she see? The whole universe, animale and inanimate!
The suggestion is plain. This phenomenal world is not introduced into the noumenal-object into consciousness--as an element from without, it is alieady in the noumenal, the object is in the consciousness
