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You may not understand my system, or any given part of it, -- or by a determined act of wilfulness, you may, even though perceiving a ray of light, reject it in anger and disgust: -- but this I will say, -- that if you once master it, or any part of it, you cannot hesitate to acknowledge it as the truth. You cannot be sceptical about it.
The metaphysical disquisition at the end of the first volume of the "Biographia Literaria" is unformed and immature; -- it contains the fragments of the truth, but it is not fully thought out. It is wonderful to myself to think how infinitely more profound my views now are, and yet how much clearer they are withal. The circle is completing; the idea is coming round to, and to be, the common sense.