world of human experience. Fact is one thing, experience is quite another. The world of fact, as I have suggested in Chapter XI, is, whatever else it be, one creation of imagination among others; and precisely what is meant by "fact" in our world of experience, is a nice question. As "pointevent" items in the stream of thought it seems that facts have ever been the smallest part of human experience; they are the smallest part of what comes and goes in the mind of any living man. But any resolute pursuit of the question of fact would call, not for another chapter, but for another volume. § 72 Meanwhile it is human experience that I have had in mind, and human nature. And the point of view of "humanism". For humanism as I conceive it the issue lies -the moral issue and no less the issue of truth and reality -between man as an animal and man as a human being. And for humanism human nature is not even human unless it be also divine. For animalism, i. e., for a view of life resolutely biological, truth and reality are restricted to animal fact, defined as "sensation". Sensations are the sole material of reality and test of truth. For humanism there is no aspect of human experience, no working of human imagination, which is not a revelation of reality— "nothing which has ever interested living men and women no language they have spoken, no oracle beside which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds, nothing about which they have expended time and zeal." And then the other words of Pater: "only be sure that it is a passion that it does yield you the fruit of a quickened and multiplied consciousness." Be sure, that is to say, that your words and deeds are significant and not mere sound and gesture. Such I conceive to be the whole meaning of truth and of morality. Addams, Jane, 125. Addison, 36. Andersen, Hans, 305. INDEX OF NAMES Aristotle, 3, 25, 28, 29, 35, 38, 74, Bach, 314. Balzac, 162. Beecher, H. W., 155, 300. Bergson, 133, 254, 264. Berkeley, 176, 267, 271, 274, 281. Blake, William, 295. Burnet, Professor John, 276, 284, 290. Enriques, F., 310. Epicurus (Epicureans), 35 ff., passim Freud (Freudians), 107, 287. Gaskell, Mrs., 93 (note), 235. Green, T. H., 29, 62, 77, 244 (note), Hammurabi, Code of, 15. Helmholtz, 313. Helvetius, 30. Herbert, George, 308. Hume, 303. James, William, 97, 111, 131, 173, Jesus Christ, 121, 174, 175, 273, 293, Jevons, W. S., 138. Jowett, B., 135. Kant (Kantian), 12, 36, 37, 49, 57 ff., Koran, The, 299. Lang, Andrew, 241. Lee, Vernon, 290. Lewes, G. H., 51. Lucian, 224. Lucretius, 62, 199, 219, 236. Lumholtz, Carl, 255. Santayana, George, 201, 220 ff., 298. Schopenhauer, 49. Shaftesbury, 18, 225. Shakespeare, 120, 313. Smith, Joseph, 184, 300. Socrates, 3, 62, 132, 222, 224, 265. Spencer and Gillen, 241. Spencer, Herbert, 68, 69, 70. Spinoza, 17, 284, 298. Stephen, J. F., 53, 68. Taylor, A. E., 272. Taylor, Jeremy, 288. Thackeray, 109, 161, 221, 235. Tourgenieff, 162, 213, 214. Trollope, Anthony, 91 (note), 235. Unamuno, Miguel de, 234 (note). Vaihinger, H., 235. Voltaire, 64. White, William Hale, 299. Xenophon, 224. |