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a fallacy which confuses "independent of" with "in abstraction from." Continuity of the real world with mind seems to me the inevitable goal and climax of twentieth century physical realism, as opposed to eclectic materialism. If the object is to be real in its fulness, as it is the merit of that doctrine to affirm, it must be maintained in connection with its complete conditions. To try and hypostasise it apart from organisms with their minds is in my judgment an evasion of the task laid upon us by the arduousness of reality. Reality, I urge, is always on ahead, where the fuller conditions are focussed. Abstraction is abandonment of the quest.