The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 201 states , if pushed to its logical extreme , passes into pantheism pure and simple ; and thus through object ing to Locke's primary qualities as things in them selves , Berkeley returns , through the objection , back to the causa sui , or better , ratio sui of Spinoza , the spiritual twin of Locke . I have taken some little trouble to arrive at this one isolated conclusion , that the Realism of the scholastic philosophers , the materialism of the classical and modern sages , and also , if we choose to extend our scheme , Nominalism , Conceptualism , Theism , Positiv ism , Spiritualism ( Malebranche ), Agnosticism ( Spen cer ), all and one , with all the other isms , may , with the slightest trouble in the world , be equated into cor responding terms of Berkeleyan Idealism . And why ? Because each individual master , each separate school , like the astronomer in the fable , whilst gazing at his own particular star , fell into the open ditch which yawned unperceived at his feet . And Berkeley : is he the Ultima Thule , the stone of the wise ? By no means , only I, in the above case , chose to represent the ditch by Berkeley ; you may call it Büchner , Spencer , or Hume , for you my readers , if you with sufficient patience pursue what I will now call Crowleyanity ' to its ultimate end , will find that William Shakespeare of Avon was not the only man in this fair world who doubted not that by any other name a rose would smell as sweet . Let us now take an infinite series A , B, A , B, A , B . The question asked is : which is first , A or B ? And the answer depends entirely upon the direction of | Not only the lever of Archimedes , but also the fulcrum he could not discover .