Mind is no longer aspectator beholding the world from without and finding its highest satisfaction in the joy of self-sufficing contemplation. The mind is within the world as apart of the latter's own on-going process. It is marked off as mind by the fact that wherever it is found, changes take place in adirected way, so that amovement in adefinite one- way sense from the doubtful and confused to the clear, re- solved and settled takes place. From knowing as an outside beholding to knowing as an active participant in the drama of an on-moving world is the historical transition whose record we have been following. As far as philosophy is concerned, the first direct and im- mediate effect of this shift from knowing which makes adiffer- ence to the knower but none in the world, to knowing which is adirected change within the world, is the complete abandon- ment of what we may term the intellectualist fallacy. By this is meant something which may also be termed the ubiquity of knowledge as a measure of reality. Of the older philosophies, framed before experimental knowing had made any significant progress, it may be said that they made adefinite separation between the world in which man thinks and knows and the
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