The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable allpervasiveness.... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak in the name of the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912), ch. 12, Absolutism and Empiricism