In order to make clear the character of this further discussion which is out of our ken, I will set before you two quotations.

One is from Schelling and I extract the quotation from the work of the Russian philosopher Lossky which has recently been so excellently translated into English[4]--'In the "Philosophy of Nature" I considered the subject-object called nature in its activity of self-constructing.

In order to understand it, we must rise to an intellectual intuition of nature.

The empiricist does not rise thereto, and for this reason in all his explanations it is always _he himself_ that proves to be constructing nature.

It is no wonder, then, that his construction and that which was to be constructed so seldom coincide.