, however, matters stand with the seeking and finding of truth within the realm of reason. If I make the definition of the mammal and then declare after inspecting a camel, Behold a mammal," then no doubt a truth is brought to light thereby, but it is of very limited value, I mean it is anthropomorphic through and through, and does not contain one single point which is  true-in-itself, real and universally valid, apart from man. The seeker after such truths seeks at the bottom only the metamorphosis of the world in man, he strives for an understanding of the world as a human-like thing and by his battling gains at best the feeling of an assimilation. Similarly, as the astrologer contemplated the stars in the service of man and in connection with their happiness and unhappiness, such a seeker contemplates the whole world as related to man, as the infinitely protracted echo of an original sound : man ; as the multiplied copy of the one arch-type : man. His procedure is to apply man as the measure of all things, whereby he starts from the error of believing that he has these things immediately before him as pure objects. He therefore forgets that the original metaphors of perception are metaphors, and takes them for the things themselves.   Only by forgetting that primitive world of metaphors, only by the congelation and coagulation of an original mass of similes and percepts pouring forth as a fiery liquid out of the primal faculty of human fancy, only by the invincible faith, that this sun, this window, t/12': table is a truth in itself: in short only by the fact that man forgets himself as subject, and what is more as an artistically creating subject : only by all this does he live with some repose, safety and consequence. I f he were able to get out of the prison walls of this faith, even for an instant only, his self-consciousness would be destroyed at once. Already it costs him some trouble to admit to himself that the insect and the bird perceive a world different from his own, and that the question, which of the two world perceptions is more accurate, is quite a senseless one, since to decide this question it would be necessary to apply the standard of right perception, i.e., to apply a standard which does not exist. On the whole it seems to me that the right perception ,which would mean the adequate expression of an object in the subject, is a nonentity full of contradictions : for between two utterly different spheres, as between subject and object,