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1909 Oct 23 2 P.M.
MEANING PREFACE 11

most of all opposes is that toward regarding human consciousness
as the author of rationality, instead of as more or less
conforming to rationality. Even if we can find no better
definition of rationality than that it is that character of arguments
to which an indefinitely great experience and reflexion would
tend indefinitely to make the character to which to human approval
conform, the there still remains a world-wide difference between that idea and
the opinion just mentioned. But the thinkers of our day seem to
regard the distinction between being [?] the product of the human
mind and being that to which the human mind would approximate to
thinking if sufficiently influenced by experience and reflection, as a
distinction of altogether of secondary importance, and hardly worth notice; while to
the writer, no distinction appears more momentous than that between