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The Western world does not want abstract metaphysics alone. It wants also tangible results, visible demonstration, and practical guidance. And because I wrote chiefly for my Western fellows, I endeavoured to bring this subject down from the rarefied atmosphere in which I found it in the East, and to make plain its bearing on common life.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 2 : Philosophy and Contemporary Culture > # 56