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disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development

of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural

science student at the university But he had never connected

these scientific deductions as to the origin of y, with those questions

as to theof life and death to himself, which had of late

been more and ument with the professor, he

noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those

spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the

latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him

the chief point, they proain into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations,

quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was

with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about

"I cannot adey Ivanovitch, with his habitual

clearness, precision of expression, and elegance of phrase "I

cannot in any case agree with Keiss that my whole conception of

the external world has been derived from perceptions The most

fundamental idea, the idea of existence, has not been received by

an for

the transmission of such an idea"