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self-questioning as to what we do or do not desire and such premisses of psychology are here the conclusions of which we are in quest. So we must make up our minds to rely entirely upon self-questioning, with here and there some possible secondary aid from psychology.
Such self-questioning produces no infallible response. On the contrary, consciousness may be set down as one of the most medacious witnessess that ever was questioned. But it is the only witness there is; and all we can do is to put it in the sweat-box and torture the truth out of it, with such judgement as we can command.
What i propose now to do is to pass in review every one of the general classes of objects which anybody could suppose to be an ultimate good, and to question consciousness, first, as to whether