text:  In the following demonstration we think that we can vindicate the objective reality of things--(a vindication which we would remark by the way is of no value whatever in so far as that objective reality is concerned but only as being instrumental to the ascertainment of the laws which regulate the whole process of sensation;)--we think that we can accomplish this without on the one hand forcing consciousness to overstep itself and on the other hand without reducing that reality to the delusive impressions of an understanding born but to deceive