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be given of the phenomena of the universe while they
leave Meaning out of account, by all means
let them go ahead and try to do it. It is a most
laudable and wholesome enterprise. But when
they go so far as to say that there is no such idea in
our minds, irreducible to anything else, I say to them,
“Don't deny what is manifest “Don't permit your
intellectual predilections to make you blind to what is
manifest. For this is the very sentiment that is
“Gentlemen, your strongest sentiment, to
which I subscribe with all my heart, is that a
man worthy of that name will not allow petty
intellectual predilections to blind him to truth,
which consists in the harmony conformity of his thoughts
to his purposes. But you know there is such a thing as a defect