Wilfrid RICHMOND
Ending of “Experience: A chapter of Prolegomena (1896)
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pp. 63-4

the mind and reality. This communion is foreshadowed in feeling, and clings to the judgments of perception, in their intimate assurance of contact with reality—an assurance prophetic of the hope which lives in all philosophies, and is the very soul of rationality itself.

[Synopsis: and by the gnosological fallacy.]
VII. On the other hand, the range of intercourse between the mind and reality has been narrowed. The reality of experience is constituted by relation to will and emotion, not less than to the intellect. In reality as it is, these three strands are inextricably interwoven with one another. But in philosophy spirit has been construed as self-consciousness, and experience as the idea, both with the suggestion, explicit or implied, that it is intellectual experience which makes reality. Philosophy has been devoted first to the analysis of the intellectual apprehension of reality. This, and the consequent elimination of the moral and emotional elements in the intellectual apprehension itself, have inevitably unrealized the philosophical representations of reality.

[Synopsis: Its task is to know the world in GOD.]
VIII. It is the task of philosophy to take the most typically real reality of experience, the intimate knowledge of personality, realized through the threefold faculty of personality itself, as the standard of our apprehension of experience as a whole. Only so can philosophy become the intellectual expression of that unique and comprehensive experience, in which the universe is the scene and organ of personal communion with the Universal Reality, in Whom are all things, an Who manifests Himself by their means.