“The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.”

—  John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Means and Ends of Education (1895), Chapter 1 "Truth and Love"

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