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2nd. A brilliant Unitarian once remarked that “when men get their heads into the clouds, they are apt to get the clouds into their heads.”<ref>It has yet to be proved that getting one’s head into the clouds and the study of metaphysics is one and the same thing, save from a materialistic point of view. Therefore, we fail to see how the dictum of the “brilliant Unitarian” supports our captious Brother.—[ED.]</ref> Every treatise applying Metaphysics to the Supreme seems to verify this. The confusion of terms, the chaos of thought, the juggling with words, the contradictions, disorders, unthinkables are not only appalling, they are maddening. The treatment of “Consciousness” is one of the best illustrations. Anyone who has followed an Oriental philosopher in his route to the conclusion that “Absolute Consciousness is Unconsciousness” is not more aghast at this goal of thought than at the steps to it, and perhaps wonders whether these steps can have been taken while in a state of “consciousness.” Naturally enough, the philosophers agree least in the very region where Unity is most desirable. Mr. Subba Row (''Notes on the Bhagavad-Gita'', page 13) speaks of “the power and wisdom of ''Parabrahman''.”<ref>Mr. Subba Row, an ''Adwaita'' (please translate the term), delivered his lectures to an Eastern audience, which understood his real meaning without unnecessary disquisitions. Absolute consciousness ''is'' absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|unconsciousness}}—to human conception, at any rate.—[{{Style S-Small capitals|Ed}}.]</ref> But wisdom is impossible in a subject not conscious, and so Parabrahman must be conscious—a state of things regarded by opposing schools as most undignified and belittling.