"The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory."

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Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

— John Stuart Mill