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notion of its inherent essence and its in- In order to gather the fruits of ego's trinsic worth.
activity, it is necessary to consider the While activity has an acceptable place nature and activity of the self in the light in the dialectics of the self, that place is of intellect. In our day, where positivism not the highest one; and where striving and fragmatism have conspired to betray is necessary for the development of the ego's
the intellect, it is not possible to advance nature, the character of that striving is chiefly the claims of the intellect with the case of negative, consisting of a reaction against the older rationalism, but since our dialecthe world.
tics must repudiate rationalism, we do not
feel the deprivation when it is taken away. It is the fate of sensation to be raised Rationalism sought to remove contraabove itself by the will; none the less it is diction by removing life; intellectualism, the fate of the will to elevate to an unwont- which has the individual on its side, attempts ed plane through the intellect. Where the the far different task of reducing this chaos intellect has performed such a task as the to order. These circumstances place the intellectualising of volition, and where it principles of intellectualism in a different occupies such an exalted position, its cha- light; no longer does the mind seek to seracter is seen to be something more than cure sway over the realm of impersonal that of intellect in the ordinary sense of sense, for now it is engaged in subduing the term.
the will as this appears in the living forin The intellect supersedes itself by virtue of individual life. of the fact that it creates something beyond, As in other phases of our study, ego. or that which is an exaggeration of the ism and activism have the effect of premere intellect. As a result, the intellect brings senting new problems and new way of the self into being, while it affords the self solving them. In the present case, where an intuition of the world as a whole. The we are striving to secure a consistent and mind can not experience the world-whole, nor sufficient notion of selfhood, the subjugation can it will the universe in its totality; but of the will by the intellect lends new meanit can contemplate the world-whole in the ing to the intellectualist problem, which is moment that it contemplates itself.
seen to proceed from the voluntaristic ra
ther than from the sensational, as was the In the assertion of the self, will promotes case with the older rationalism. intellect, while intellect perfects will. The Philosophy has ever been optimistic conunion of these two functions of reality is cerning the will; it has assumed that, with found in the human self.
all the uncertainty of speculation, action,
was something sure. But the rise of voThe peculiar character of intro-activity luntarism has brought us to the place has been obscured by physical and social where we are called upon to inquire conconsiderations, which have made it impos- cerning the authenticity of action, for the sible for humanity to live from within. mind may doubt the deed as well as the
thought. Where the human self reacts
