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And the writer who could make this apparent, and succeed in getting it banished from the vocabulary of philosophy, and confined to common language as the word ideas now is, would render the greatest possible service to the cause of truth. Is it not enough for a man that he is himself? There can be no dispute about that. I am; what more would I have? what more would I be? why would I be 'mind'? what do I know about it? what is it to me, or I to it? I am myself, therefore let it perish."