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Logic 107

once more and once for all that we do not mean what a secret nature of the fact is but simply what we think it to be.
Some fact there is.
All experience compels your acknowledgement.
What then is the fact is present to you?
Ask yourself it is past.
A fact is a fait accompli its esse is in praelerito.
The past compels the present in some measure at least.
If you complain to the Past that it is wrong and unreasonable it laughs it does not care a snap of the finger for Reason.
Its force is brute force.
So then you are compelled brutally compelled to admit that there is such an element in the world of experience as brute force.
What then is brute force or what does it seem to be?
We ought to find little difficulty in answering that since we are directly conscious (or seem to be which is all that concerns us here) of exerting ourselves.
For no matter how good a reason we may have for an act of the will yet when