EVOLUTION THE MASTER-KEY 



The Evolution of Knowledge, a Review of Philoso- 

 phy, by Raymond St. James Perrin. 1 The author of 

 this book believes that " the reason why our knowl- 

 edge is only of phenomena is that there is nothing 

 but phenomena"; he regards the postulating of 

 anything that cannot be known as mysticism and 

 superstition, and his main thesis, which he con- 

 siders to be abundantly proved, is that the ulti- 

 mate reality is motion. He is an evolutionist, 

 and it would appear that, from the doctrine of 

 universal change, he infers reality to be none other 

 than material change or motion. It would be idle 

 to follow him in the whole of his argument how 

 idle no reader will need more than ten pages to 

 show but it is expedient, I think, to consider the 

 chief difficulty which he has to encounter the 

 resolution of mind into motion. 



While we who believe that neither mind nor not- 

 mind is the ultimate reality, but that both are 

 phenomenal of an underlying reality, can afford 

 to recognize a proximate dualism of mind and not- 

 mind, those who believe that they have found the 

 answer to the question of questions are commonly 

 compelled, by the passion for unity which they 

 share with us, to resolve mind into not -mind, or 

 vice versa. 



A few years ago we could have used the word 

 materialism to describe the doctrine which pro- 

 fesses to explain mind in terms of not-mind. But 



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