Excerpt from The McGill Fortnightly Review, Vol. 1: March 22, 1926 It is easy to deny the reality of anything except perhaps the consciousness of the individual. There is something so abominably egotistical, so ludicrously exaggerated, in the view that I alone exist, and that the existence of all else depends upon my consciousness, sleep ping when I sleep, dying when I die, that most men would rather be called ugly names like naive realist than succumb to the conviction of an absolutely self-centred idealist. It is the glory of science that it selects as real those things which exist in common in the experience of mankind. Every idea which can be put to the proof, not by one, but by many, which as Herschel said emerges triumphant from every test of fair discus sion, that is the body of knowledge which claims the title of truth. It is not denied that there is knowledge outside the borders of what is now called science. We pass from the sublime heights of clear sunshine into the shadowy valleys of values where men grope uncertaincly and with small guidance for the pearls of great price, for that which is infinite in possibility and priceless in possession, the immortal gifts of the spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.