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If it be subject to one rule (by way of exception,) let it be that rule of just found third-rate thinkers amply supplied, which go to bar this path of inquiry. Be not afraid of any speculation. Consider whether there be any consistent line of conduct between casting reason altogether aside, and assuming, in advance, that any given phenomenon will prove to be intelligible. Ask, for example, if you like, why the three Universes are here at all. This is the same as to ask why, supposing that neither of the three were in Being, so that absolutely nothing were even in idea but blank

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