This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...as long or horizontally extended. You have a certain experience that rises and falls and returns to its first stage, and you construct the sight as of a circle or other closed curve. You have another experience of even, gentle relaxation, and you construct a level moon-beam or perhaps a straight railroad track. 1 For ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...as long or horizontally extended. You have a certain experience that rises and falls and returns to its first stage, and you construct the sight as of a circle or other closed curve. You have another experience of even, gentle relaxation, and you construct a level moon-beam or perhaps a straight railroad track. 1 For an interesting though unsatisfactory discussion of this point see F. Enriques, Problemi delta Sciensa, Chap. II, pp. 58-107. Well, then, your visible, tangible, audible, sensible world is a world of constructs, the products of your own spiritactivity, and it is real just so far as your spirit-activity agrees with itself and with the communal spirit-activity of your spirit-fellows. But what, you ask, is a spirit, a soul, a mind, anyway? That is a question each of you must answer for yourself, no one can answer it for you. Your inner experience is known to you and to you only. I can only guess whether you are interested or bored. You may be in accord, or you may be spurning my words as nonsense. But you know, each one of you, though your knowledge is strictly incommunicable, whatever signs or gestures you may make; for a word is a sign, it is a gesture of the vocal organs. What then do you know? I can never tell. But I may be allowed to make a bold and momentous hypothesis. I guess that you are like me. Observing that my own body, as a sense-construct, corresponds to my own spirit-nature, to my own soul-experiences, and observing that your body, as also a sense-construct, resembles my own in general plan and countless details, I apply the familiar Rule of Three and form the proportion: As my body is to my spirit, so is your body to--your spirit. Such is my reason, not a strictly logical, but an extremely probable analogical, reason for supposing ...
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