...archinterpreters of the universe. For the universe, we may venture to hope, is not pure thought, not ' some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.' Still less is it, we would fain believe, blind and unreasoning passion, the expression of a boundless...

...fuller splendour ; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable...categories. Though dragged to such conclusions, we can not embrace them. Our principles may be true, but they are not reality. They no more make that...

...fuller splendour ; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable...categories. Though dragged to such conclusions, we can not embrace them. Our principles may be true, but they are not reality. They no more make that...

...some fuller splendour; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable...beauty of flesh which our hearts found delightful." The dream of the intellectual world as a land of shadows, now below and now above, now more obscure...

...fuller splendour ; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral •woof of impalpable...principles may be true, but they are not ' reality ' " (p. 18). Mr. Bosanquet protests against this "baleful enchantment," this " dream which . . . seems...

...from criticism. But if Hegelianism is, as some tell us, the resolution of the life of the world into "some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories " ; if it is the substitution of the theory of reality for reality itself ; if it is a system that...

...question that it explains Mr. Bradley's famous protest against the dissolution of the world into ' some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories '. 2 And if it is unnatural and completely unconvincing to treat nature as a set of ideas or intellectual...

...perceived world and its cosmic order, we are not destined to any colourless life of bare ideas, to "some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories," but are to go perceptively onward in perpetuum, exercising forever our inherent power of framing experience,...

...fuller splendour ; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable...beauty of flesh which our hearts found delightful" (p. 533). With this valuation of feeling we cannot fail to connect Mr. Bradley's doctrine that it is...

...fuller splendour ; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable...abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories." 2 Now Hegel's answer to this objection is, I think, found in the second characteristic of thought as...