This unity is an article of faith in as much as it is an axiom and postulate of our innermost being.
We may have practically verified it only in a limited number of cases, but happy they who see it in all concerns of life.
We verify the relation between hyperbola and a symptole up to a certain point, but for the rest we Know for certain (believe?) that the same relation subsists.
Having determined Self to be the substratum of the Universe, let us not put further questions as to the why and where of Atman: having determined the centre of the circle we should not ask:
“Where is the middle of the centre?”
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To be modest in our pretensions is often to make a kind of merit of our very ignorance.
Says David Hume: “This sceptical doubt both with respect to reason and the senses, is a malady.”
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Reason = systematized experience, not a faculty but a method.
The most penetrating thinker (like Agassiz) may err in his solution of the burning question of his day, while less able minds may hit the truth, which may sometimes happen, because they are less bewildered by the knowledge of too much trivial detail.
Atom, according to Thomson and Tail, are units of rotating motions, or whirls. (Boscovich, Leibnitz = monads.)
According to the law expressed in Mendeljeffs series the chemical elements are various forms of the same substance.
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(Juxtaposition of parts = Space
Succession of events = Time
Thus transformations of form constitute all the phenomenal existence.
Form is the condition of law in the objective nature and of comprehension in the subjective mind.
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True knowledge is simply the description of facts as they are and no attempt to explain them through theories and hypothesis. Facts, when described accordingly, explain themselves.
A disinterested witness, spirit, is the only proper attitude for a philosopher.
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Mythologies are scaffolds often serviceable but to be carefully torn down after they have served their purpose. Gaps in Science filled by imagination.
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Positive Ethics is simply that deportment which is suggested by a comprehension of the facts themselves.
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Reason is in the province of thought that same intrinsic necessity and harmony which in objective existence is the condition of the cosmic order (Law).
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The world process may be summed up in ” the simultaneous production of thesis, antithesis, and then their synthesis.”
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Correlative of plurality and form minus conception is Atman, Brahman.
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Memory is not the effect of a transcendental self-hood but the cause, preservation of cerebral structure.
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“The wind blows.”
Does it mean that wind is an intelligent doer?