What may seem an irrelevancy turns on this very point.
The irrelevancy of an objective idealism lies in the fact that it totally ignores the position and function of ideality in sustained and serious endeavor.
I know of no more convincing proof of the futile irrelevancy of idealism than the damning way in which it narrows the content of actual daily life in the minds of those who uphold idealism.
Hence the vacuum left in practical matters by the remote irrelevancy of transcendental morals has to be filled in somehow.
Such progressive organization throws backward doubt upon the assumption of the original total irrelevancy of the data and thought-form to each other.
It is this uncritical acceptance of the purposive quality of the idea that obscures the irrelevancy of its relation to the absolute system.
The charge that his irrelevancy was a weakness is based on another false but popular premise, that the direct method is always the best.
It comes to this: if you want to make an extract from Thackeray you must dive about all over the place to make apparent irrelevancy become relevancy.
Irrelevancy is certainly the worst of sins and it is a natural vice in most of us only to be kept down by prayer and fasting from the practice of it.
This national safeguard, this barrier between judicial irrelevancy and the public at large, should not be removed in a careless spirit.
Lord Sumner is perfectly right and when he next speaks on this subject I wish he would point out with authority that this human habit of irrelevancy is the constitutional reason for maintaining the grand jury.
For centuries the King's Bench judges have worked off their natural irrelevancy in charging the grand juries at assize towns to the great benefit of themselves and the local papers.
Because I was not allowed to prove the irrelevancy of the charge made against me, by an appeal to the Bible, "the only rule of faith and manners.
