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..."Suppose . . . that the whole universe of material things . should turn out to be a mere surface veil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of...foreign neither to common sense nor to philosophy. "... Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Suppose, now,...

...James, of Harvard, says (" Human Immortality," p. 16) : " Suppose the whole universe of material things should turn out to be a mere surface-veil of phenomena,...foreign neither to common sense nor to philosophy. * * * " Life like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity." Admit now...

...hypothesis into the world of real fact. I mean the theory, that, as Professor James himself expresses it, " the whole universe of material things — the furniture...hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities ; . . . the whole world of natural experience, as we get it, to be but a time-mask, shattering or refracting...

...things — the furniture of earth and choir of heaven — should turn out to be a mere surface -veil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of...sense believes in realities behind the veil even too superatitiously ; and idealistic philosophy declares the whole world of natural experience, as we get...

...to this view, then, the brain is the ground of our psychical individuality. Matter is regarded as " a mere surfaceveil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities," 3 and our brains are regarded as translucent spots or systems of pores in this veil, whereby beams...

...theories: "Suppose, for example, the whole universe of material things, the furniture of earth, and the choir of heaven should turn out to be a mere surface-veil of Phenomena hiding and keeping back a world of genuine realities. Such a supposition is foreign to neither common sense nor philosophy."...

...to this view, then, the brain is the ground of our psychical individuality. Matter is regarded as " a mere surfaceveil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities," 3 and our brains are regarded as translucent spots of systems of pores in this veil, whereby beams...

...psychologist leaves out of account. " Suppose, for example, that the whole universe of material things should turn out to be a mere surface-veil of phenomena,...hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities — a supposition foreign neither to common sense or to philosophy. Suppose, moreover, that the veil,...

...Theory and the Transmission Theory.1 1 James thought it might be possible that the whole world may be a "mere surface-veil of phenomena hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities," and that this opaque veil might at certain times and places become thin and transparent, letting through...