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He read mockery in the eyes of his pupils; the maids in the house tittered when he passed by. What did they know? What were they concealing? Perhaps his soul could have told what they knew and what they concealed; but he was unwilling to drag it all out into the realm of known, nameable things.

That art is local is likewise just as true of America as of any other country, and despite the judgment of stodgy minds, there is a definite product which is peculiar to our specific temper and localized sensibility as it is of any other country which is nameable.

As the result, therefore, of our analysis, we obtain the following as an enumeration and classification of all Nameable Things:— 1st. Feelings, or States of Consciousness. 2nd. The Minds which experience those feelings. 3rd.

The only remaining class of Nameable Things is Attributes; and these are of three kinds, Quality, Relation, and Quantity.

Yet even entity implies, though not so much as being, the notion of substance. In fact, every word originally connoting simply existence, gradually enlarges its connotation to mean separate existence, i.e. existence freed from the condition of belonging to a substance, so as to exclude attributes and feelings. Nameable things are I. Feelings or States of Consciousness.

We shall commence with Feelings, the simplest class of nameable things; the term Feeling being of course understood in its most enlarged sense. I. Feelings, or States of Consciousness.

Even from his own point of view that lauded 'sense of the overwhelming sadness of modern life' which captivates the admirers of his latest style it is possible to spread the epic table of sorrow without finding a place upon it for scraps of the hoggish anatomy which are not nameable except in strictly scientific or wholly boorish speech.

But where the resemblances and differences on which our classifications are founded are not of this palpable and easily determinable kind; especially where they consist not in any one quality but in a number of qualities, the effects of which being blended together are not very easily discriminated, and referred each to its true source; it often happens that names are applied to nameable objects, with no distinct connotation present to the minds of those who apply them.

We shall, therefore, proceed to the two remaining classes of nameable things; all things which are external to the mind being considered as belonging either to the class of Substances or to that of Attributes. II. Substances.

The bread of absolute knowledge I do not hope to taste in this life. But all creation was remodelled on a grander scale by the utterances of my teachers; and my problems, though they deepened with the expansion of all nameable phenomena, were carried up to the heights of the impersonal, and ceased to torment me.