Excerpt from Knowledge and Life A web of the mutual relations of such elements. This web of relations has also more and more drawn man into itself, and has regarded him as a mere part of itself. Man's life has thus been entirely transformed into a relation with the environment of sense impressions; life is viewed as exhausting its meaning in its effects and counter-effects in connection with the external world. Thus what happens within the inwardness of the soul becomes a merely subsidiary phenomenon - it becomes a mere repetition in miniature of what happens in the great world without. Man thus becomes a mere link in an endless chain he can neither mean anything special nor grasp, by means of his acts, any totality or whole. And if no kind of totality or whole Obtains here, the idea of an inner relation to a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.