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pass the cool limits of agnosticism;
but all religions idealism and
all the higher emotionalism must
necessarily do the same thing.
Fixed limits imply stagnation, and
stagnation retrogression; and I
cannot help believing the thoughts of
the era is sure to seek the
opposite path of expansion.
I am troubled, though, by my
comparative ignorance of what
has been attempted in this
line, and do not wish to
figure as a mere recitator[?]
of thoughts already familiar
-- especially when able to give
credit. It was expressively
for this reason that I
was anxious to obtain some
books on the subject. "Mind"
I have never seen: ondeed
I must ask you to imagine