If there _be_ real creative activiteis in being,
radical empiricism must say, somewhere they
must be immediately lived. Somewhere the
_that_ of efficacious causing and the _what_ of it
must be experienced in one, just as the what
and the that of 'cold' are experienced in one
whenever a man has the sensation of cold here
and now. It boots not to say that our sensations
are fallible. They are indeed; but to see
the thermometer contradict us when we say 'it
is cold' does not abolish cold as a specific nature
from the universe. Cold is the arctic
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circle if not here. Even so, to feel that our
train is moving when the train beside our window
moves, to see the moon through a telescope
come twice as near, or to see two pictures
as one solid when we look through a
stereoscope at them, leaves motion, nearness,
and solidity still in being -- if not here,
yet each in its proper seat elsewhere. And
wherever the seat of real causality _is_, as ultimately
known 'for true' (in nerve-processes,
if you will, that cause our feelings of activity
as well as the movements which these
seem to prompt), a philosophy of pure experience
can consider the real causation as no other
_nature_ of thing than that which even our
most erroneous experiences appears to be at
work.
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