Excerpt from The Master Key: A New Philosophy Address to Psychologists, Scientists, Theologians, Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Spiritists, Ascetics, Orientalists, and Educated Persons Generally There are certain things that cannot be explained. It is the chief business of philosophy to determine what these things are, so that we may not waste time and ingenuity in trying to explain the inexplicable. In this essay it is assumed that consciousness is inexplicable. Mere sensitiveness is meant: not the intellectual processes, which can be explained. 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.