Unthinkables (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Unthinkables

Different people, that if they really are what they seem they must be all sorts of different things themselves; and then the Universe would be nothing but a self-contradictory chaos, in which two and two might make either four or five, and its critics be left without any trust worthy basis of cognition, or argument, or per ception. No candid person, however prejudiced, would, in his better moments, bring so serious a charge against the general scheme of things, and the fullest weight should be allowed to the consideration: But there is an art of seeing things as well as an art of putting things, and there are no rules for either; it is a matter of education, of association, of mental temperament and in our views of life an a priori hypothesis is usually at the root of the picture we think we see. Each man, in fact, lives in a world of his own. The scheme of things in general, for instance, is a very different affair to the Dalai Lama from what it is to Colonel Robert Ingersoll.' Each of these well-meaning persons views it with a different eye, with different pre. Possessions; in short, from a different stand.

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