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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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§ 1. Of all the subjects which for well over two thousand years have remained the more or less constant topics of philosophical discussion, I can think of none which has not at some time by some philosopher been dismissed as a nonentity or an illusion. The history of philosophy seems to show that we cannot begin fairly to estimate the nature of any element in the universe until we have steadily contemplated a universe from which that element has been hypothetically eliminated.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1934

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1 The substance of two inter-collegiate lectures delivered at Oxford in January 1934.