but left it to his 'daeman' to know the petty con tingen con ten of wha he wanted to know whether it would be good for him to keep company with this or that persoll, or good for one of his acquaintances to go on a rney,anclsimiiar unimportant things; in the same way the universaLconsdousness,draws knowledge of the contingent from birds, or tr.ees, or the yeasty earth, the vapour from which deprives self consciousness of its self possession.