...substituted to advantage, as conforming better to the impulses of the soul ; and later I liked to regard all systems as alternative illusions for the solipsist;...to lose, a certain facility and pleasure in taking those points of view at will, and speaking those philosophical languages. But though as a child I regretted...

...substituted to advantage, as conforming better to the impulses of the soul ; and later I liked to regard all systems as alternative illusions for the solipsist...to lose, a certain facility and pleasure in taking those points of view at will, and speaking those philosophical languages. But though as a child I regretted...

...himself makes it explicit at every turn. He says in one of his latest essays, On My Friendly Critics, "Neither solipsism nor Catholicism were ever anything...vistas for the imagination, never convictions ... I have never been able to elude the recurring, invincible, and ironic conviction that whenever I or any...