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Presidential Address
outside time as one reality is outside another. It is not clear, then, that the eternity of mind is the mortality of nature, because what is indefinite from the standpoint of the many is infinite from the standpoint of the one. Life, the mind's reality, is in experience (in nature, the experience of which is consciousness). But it lives within nature without being absorbed in it, and without ever itself becoming it; moreover, it always keeps its own infinity or unity, without which even nature with its multiplicity, that is, with space and time, would be dissolved. " And his conclusion is "The part of us and of those dearest which dies is a materiality which has never lived."
How much of this is the Bhagavadgītā! One word about cousciousness as "act." Unless the word "act" is used in a sense which makes it indistinguishable from "being," I wonder if " act is not the empirical aspect of "being" which is the transcendental"; or, perhaps, both of them are aspects of the same Reality, empirical and transcendental respectively.
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The philosophy of Italy is not all Neo-Idealism. The human mind instinctively, may be rightly or wrongly or under a misapprehension of what is being done, refuses to be wiped out of reality or be made lonely, or be deprived of its dwelling house and its furniture. As has been observed, Hegelianism has never lacked strenuous opponents even in the days of its triumph. And we have consequently some exponents and advocates of the claims of science. of spiritual Realism, Pluralism and Theism such as Aliotta and Varisco. But unfortunately we have no space for reviewing them.
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