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of infantine vacuity—consciousness which, during the develop-
ment of every creature, makes its appearance out of what
seems unconscious matter; suggesting the thought that con-
sciousness in some rudimentary form is omnipresent. Lastly
come the insoluble questions concerning our own fate: the
evidence seeming so strong that the relations of mind and
nervous structure are such that cessation of the one accom-
panies dissolution of the other, while, simultaneously, comes
the thought, so strange and so difficult to realise, that with
death there lapses both the consciousness of existence and the
consciousness of having existed."

" Thus religious creeds, which in one way or other
occupy the sphere that rational interpretation seeks
to occupy and fails, and fails the more the more it
seeks, I have come to regard with a sympathy based
on community of need : feeling that dissent from them
results from inability to accept the solutions offered,
joined with the wish that solutions could be found "e think of the myriads