ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly inquires into the self's reality. Naturally the self is a fact, to some extent and in some sense; and this, of course, is not the issue. The question is whether the self in any of its meanings can, as such, be real. And there is understood now to be a claim on the part of the self, not only to maintain and to justify its own proper being, but, in addition, to rescue things from the condemnation they have passed on them. The chapter begins by pointing out that feeling, if a revelation, is not exclusively or even specially a revelation of the self. Feeling, if taken as immediate presentation, most obviously gives features of what later becomes the environment. And these are indivisibly one thing with what later becomes the self. Thus basic feeling has no power to justify the self's reality, and naturally none to solve the problems of the universe at large.
