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What Does, What Knows, What Is. I have happily left myself no time today to speak of What Is: happily, because I would not have you even approach it towards the end of an hour when your attention must be languishing. But I leave you with two promises, and with two sayings from which as this lecture took its start its successors will proceed.
The first promise is, that What Is, being the spiritual element in man, is the highest object of his study.