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Humanity is ever seeking the Reality—the Noumenon, which we intuitively postulate as behind the phenomena of Nature.

At the end of the chain of phenomena the theist makes a mighty jump and gains the noumenon.

The outward fact is called the Phenomenon, and the corresponding inward principle is called the Noumenon.

It is a noumenon and belongs properly to the unknowable—that is to say, according to the sense in which it is understood.

The garden held a small temple consecrated to the Noumenon beyond phenomena.

And this meaning is retained in the Kantian philosophy, in which the noumenon is identical with the Ding an sich.

In either case the noumenon, the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, escaped.

Being a "noumenon," it is not a phenomenon; being a "thing in itself," it is not what things are to us.

The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.

But what that something is, what is the noumenon which underlies the phenomenon, it is impossible for us to know.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985