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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
145
It
is
not,
I
say,
unthinkable;
but
that
is
not
the
same
thing
as
to
declare
that
life
has
no
meaning
beyond
the
sense
it
bears
to
human
intelligence.
The
intelligence
itself
rejects
such
a
supposition;
in
my
case,
with
impatience
and
scorn.
No
theory
of
the
world
which
ever
came
to
my
knowledge
is
to
me
for
one
moment
acceptable;
the
possibility
of
an
explanation
which
would
set
my
mind
at
rest
is
to
me
inconceivable;
no
whit
the
less
am
I
convinced
that
there
is
a
Reason
of
the
All;
one
which
transcends
my
understanding,
one
no
glimmer
of
which
will
ever
touch
my
apprehension;
a
Reason
which
must
imply
a
creative
power,
and
therefore,
even
whilst
a
necessity
of
my
thought,
is
by
the
same
criticized
into
nothing.
A
like
antinomy
with
that
which
affects
our
conception
of
the
infinite
in
time
and
space.
Whether
the
rational
processes
have
reached
their
final
development,
who
shall
say?
Perhaps
what
seem
to
us
the
impassable
limits
of
thought
are
but
the
conditions
of
a
yet
early
stage
in
the
history
of
man.
Those
who
make
them
a
proof
of
a
"future
state"
must
necessarily
suppose
gradations
in
that
futurity;
does
the
savage,
scarce
risen
above
the
brute,
enter
upon
the
same
"new
life"
as
the
man
of
highest
civilization?
Such
gropings
of
the
mind
certify
our
ignorance;
the
strange
thing
is
that
they
can
be
held
by
any
one
to
demonstrate
that
our
ignorance
is
final
knowledge.
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