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is not now the infinite vitality of those particular ideas, but
that every idea has in some measure in the same sense that those are supposed
to have it in unlimited measure, more or less the
power to work out physical and psychical results. They have
life, and generative life.

That is is so is a matter of experiential fact. But whether
it is so or not is not a question to be settled by producing
a microscope or telescope of any recondite evidence observations
of any kind. Its evidence stares us all in the face every
hour of our lives. Not is any ingenious reasoning
needed to make it plain. If one does not see it, it is
for the same reason that some men have not a sense
of sin; and there is nothing for it but to be born again
and become a little child. If you do not see it, you
have to look upon the world with new eyes.

How existence may be derived from ideas.

I may be asked what I mean by the objects of
class deriving their existence from an idea. Do I mean