Life as Reality: A Philosophical Essay (Classic Reprint)

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Some years ago I was asked by a friend, while We were climbing old Kearsarge, to defend a system of idealism which gave full value to the will-strivings of our life-interests without degen erating into crude individualism. That reality could be defined in some such terms had been my thesis, - and it is the thesis of the present essay. This little incident occurred several years ago, but in the intervening time, while struggling to make myself clear, I have become the more convinced than ever that reality, for us human beings, is revealed directly through the impulses, the strivings, the purposes of our life and only indirectly through the vast world of objects and facts that pass in ceaseless stream before the eye of consciousness. It is in the effort and not at the goal that we must search for the real.

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