The Art Work of the Future (Hardcover)

If Mind has manufactured Nature, if Thought has made the Actual, if the Philosopher comes before the Man: then Nature, Actuality and Man are no more necessary, and their existence is not only superfluous but even harmful; for the greatest superfluity of all is the lagging of the Incomplete when once the Complete has come to being. In this wise Nature, Actuality and Man would only then have any meaning, or any pretext for their presence, when Mind-- the unconditioned Spirit, the only cause and reason, and thus the only law unto itself--employed them for its absolute and sovereign pleasure.