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—real facts—what alone is true, and alone worthy of being
known. Finally, perception (the variety of perceptions) ex-
plains why the human intellect strives to emerge from them
and to impose upon them a world of types and of laws, gov-
erned by mathematical measures and relations; which is the
reason of the formation of the natural sciences and mathe-
matics, in addition to philosophy and history.

It is not here my task to give a sketch of Logic, as I have
been or am giving a sketch of Æsthetic; and therefore, re-
fraining from determining and developing the theory of
Logic, and intellectual, perceptive, and historical knowl-
edge, I shall resume the thread of the argument, not pro-
ceeding on this occasion from the artistic and intuitive spirit,
but from the logical and historical, which has surpassed the
intuitive and has elaborated the image in perception. Does
the spirit find satisfaction in this form? Certainly: all know
the very lively satisfactions of knowledge and science; all
know, from experience, the desire which takes possession of
one to discover the countenance of reality, concealed by our
illusions; and even though that countenance be terrible, the
discovery is never unaccompanied with profound pleasure,
due to the satisfaction of possessing the truth. But does such
satisfaction differ in being complete and final from that af-
forded by art? Does not dissatisfaction perhaps appear side
by side with the satisfaction of knowing reality? This, too,
is most certain; and the dissatisfaction of having known man-
ifests itself (as indeed all know by experience) in the desire
for action: it is well to know the real state of affairs, but we
must know it in order to act; by all means let us know the
world, but in order that we may change it: tempus cogno-
scendi, tempus destruendi, tempus renoυandi. No man re-
mains stationary in knowledge, not even sceptics or pessi-

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