Appreciations of Experience

Wendell Ter Bush (1866–1941)

Avenarius and the Standpoint of Pure Experience

“Am I a lord? And have I such a lady?Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;I smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things:Upon my life I am a lord indeedAnd not a tinker, nor Christophero Sly.”