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The following is an excerpt from Thinking and Destiny, 1946, by Harold W. Percival, provided here in the original format as well as bulleted.
Consciousness is the ultimate, the final Reality. Consciousness is that by the presence of which all things are conscious. Mystery of all mysteries, it is beyond comprehension. Without it nothing can be conscious; no one could think; no being, no entity, no force, no unit, could perform any function.