There is no ready English or even German word that precisely characterises an extended order, or how its way of functioning contrasts with the rationalists’ requirements. The only appropriate word, ‘transcendent’, has been so misused that I hesitate to use it. In its literal meaning, however, it does concern that which far surpasses the reach of our understanding, wishes and purposes, and our sense perceptions, and that which incorporates and generates knowledge which no individual brain, or any single organisation, could possess or invent. This is conspicuously so in its religious meaning, as
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