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of necessitarianism, the denial of any "consciousness," other than a visceral or other external sensation, the recognition of Real habits i.e. of Real generals (which is the essence of scholastic realism,) the insistence upon interpreting hypostatic abstractions in terms of what they would or might (not actually will,) come to in the concrete. It is a pity they should allow a philosophy so instinct with life to become infected with the seeds of death in such ill-considered notions as that of the rejection of all ideas of infinity, that of the mutability of truth, and the confusion of active willing (willing to control thought and conduct, and to weight reasons), with willing not to exert the will (willing to believe).