' Mainly, however, we
live on speculative investments, or on our prospects
only. But living on things _in_posse_ is
as good as living in the actual, so long as our
credit remains good. It is evident that for the
most part it is good, and that the universe
seldom protests our drafts.
In this sense we at every moment can continue
to believe in an existing _beyond_. It is
only in special cases that our confident rush
forward gets rebuked. The beyond must, of
course, always in our philosophy be itself of an
experiential nature. If not a future experience
of our own or a present one of our neighbor, it
must be a thing in itself in Dr. Prince's and
Professor Strong's sense of the term -- that is,
it must be an experience _for_ itself whose relation
to other things we translate into the action
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of molecules, ether-waves, or whatever else the
physical symbols may be.(1) This opens the
chapter of the relations of radical empiricism
to panspychism, into which I cannot enter
now.
The beyond can in any case exist simultaneously
-- for it can be experienced _to_have_existed_
simultaneously -- with the experience
that practically postulates it by looking in its
direction, or by turning or changing in the
direction of which it is the goal.
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