CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



IMAGO MUNDI 



PAGE 



The world-old effort of the race to construct a world image, a 

 picture of the universe Its history It is scattered through a 

 variety of works, most of which had appeared before the idea 

 of evolution had taken hold The permanence of our present- 

 day conceptions . . - . . . . . I 



CHAPTER II 



THE OVERCOMING OF APPEARANCES 



The whole intellectual and scientific advance has been characterised 

 by the overturning of primitive impressions and beliefs A 

 survey of the wondrous change in our ideas which this process 

 has wrought The implication . . . . 19 



CHAPTER III 



MICRO-MAN : THE BACILLUS ON THE WHEEL 



Endeavouring to portray the extraordinary difficulties with which 

 man has had to contend in his struggle for knowledge His 

 helplessness and his ignorance His littleness compared with 

 the cosmos he has learned to know . . . -37 



CHAPTER IV 



THE BEGINNINGS OF CERTITUDE 



Primitive man and his world His earliest ideas of fixity and law 

 must have come from the development of mathematics and its 

 applications How he first learned " to count, to measure, to 

 time, and to weigh " . . . . 47 



