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"^i The prevalence of Taine's Spinozistic solution is indicated by the following 

 quotation from James: 'Huxley, Clifford, Haeckel, Fechner, and Taine . . . 

 regard consciousness and matter as coextensive throughout all levels of com= 

 plexity' (Perry, The Thought and Character of William James, I, 489, in a chapter 

 on 'Spencer and Cosmology*). 



"72 See his Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Part Six, 'Postulates of 

 Scientific Inference', especially Chapter V, 'Causal Lines', and Chapter VI, 

 'Structure and Causal Laws'. 



73 Cf., for example, the quotation from Einstein and Infeld. Appendix A, 

 'The "Eternal Axiom'" (Note 67), and our Chapter X, 'The Problem of 

 Causation'. 



74 Cf. this chapter. Note 45. 



75 Op. cit., p. 154. 



76 Ibid., p. 160, Cohen's italics. Cf. Taine's 'eternal axiom' and 'explana- 

 tory reason'. 



77 Appendix D, 'Bosanquet's Hegelian Analysis of "The Concrete 

 Universal'". 



78 Cf. Edman, Human Traits: 'It is a desire for beauty as well as a thorough- 

 going scientific passion which prompts men like Poincare, and Karl Pearson 

 to seek for one law, one formula which, like "one clear chord to reach the ears 

 of God", expresses the whole universe' (p. 63). 



79 For example, when Whitehead wanted to construct a metaphysics which 

 did justice both to the concreteness of the 'actual occasion' and the universality 

 of the 'eternal objects', he tried to correct the tendency towards 'vicious 

 organicism' (not altogether successfully) by introducing 'the principle of the 

 Isolation of Eternal Objects in the realm of possibility'. {Science and the Modern 

 World, Chapters X-XI, on 'Abstraction' and 'God'. Final quote from p. 165, 

 Whitehead's italics.) 



80 Cf. our Chapter IX, Note 28. 



81 But other possibilities of permanence may be contained in Jung's theor)- of 

 the 'racial unconscious'. 



82 Though, on the whole, Taine's optimistic faith in the powers of reason 

 remained unshaken, he frequently used the more cautious language we are 

 suggesting. Thus, our ideas should be 'very general, and, if possible, universal' 

 {On Intelligence, II, 165, our italics); the characters we seek to abstract may 

 be 'one or more' {ibid., 185, our italics); 'existing things present the required 

 characters, or at least tend to present them . . .' {ibid., 231, our italics); and so 

 forth. 



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