The Logic of Reason, Universal and Eternal #252504

Long since, distinction was made between that which appeared in consciousness through external or gans, and that which 'entered by an activity within; and thenceforward experience has had its division into facts of matter and facts of mind. Speculative phi iosophy, seeking to bind all facts in unity, has never been lacking in opposing theories, one striving to ex pound all experience as originating in matter, and the other in mind; and the partiality arising from exclu sive interest in one or the other side of investigation, while it has sharpened and extended inquiry in each, has also promoted prejudice and intolerance in both.