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coming to pass. This certainty, like all
certainty, is of the nature of a representation sign.
It is not, however, a certainty in our minds. It
is certainty in the nature of things. It is
an eternal law to which the events of the universe
really will conform. It is this certainty, this
law which in pervading the whole universe,
and in thus pervading our mental natures with the rest,
enables us, no matter by what machinery,
to make our guess. Your objecting,— I continue in reply,
your objecting, which is the only element of what you say that I find to object to, is
due to your bad habit of thinking that there
are no realities but facts, thus overlooking
these realities which alone impart to facts
any significance. You must become as