... of how we come to know the distinction between the two worlds concerns the nature of knowledge. It is thus an epistemological, not a metaphysical issue. With these ideas from different philosophers being presented to me, I conclude with this final thought on reality, has my idea of what reality is has been tested on its validity, and which I think I do still hold ... (by whom, we are not told), and forcibly led up a tunnel to the outside. It is an extremely painful process of adjustment. No artifice up here; nature and truth rule. Enlightenment is initially baffling and difficult; but o...

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