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CHAPTER IV
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Objective revelation proves to us exactly that the subject-objective and object-subjective, which----" "Ah!" said Mrs.Gunilla, throwing herself back, "talk what nonsense you will for me, I know what I know.

Nomads may be just what they please for me: but I call a man, a man; I call a cat, a cat, and a flower, a flower; and our Lord God remains to me our Lord God, and no nomad!" "Monad, monad!" cried the Candidate, in a sort of half-comic despair; "and as for that word, philosophy has as good a right as any other science to make use of certain words to express certain ideas." During the last several minutes suspicious movements had been heard at the parlour door, the cause of which now became evident; the children had stolen in behind the Candidate, and now cast beseeching glances towards their mother that she should let all go on unobserved.

Petrea and Eva stole in first, carrying between them a heavy pincushion, weighted with lead, five pounds in weight at least.

The Candidate was standing; and at the very moment when he was doing his best to defend the rights of philosophy, the leaden cushion was dropped down into his coat-pocket.

A motion backwards was perceptible through his whole body, and his coat was tightly pulled down behind.


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