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able amount of material, but that the former are 

 characterised by what he terms a creative synthesis ; the 

 psychical or inner world is continually growing, whereas 

 the physical world is ruled by the conservation of matter 

 and energy or of what other primary elements we may 

 assume. This conception, extended into the field of 

 moral life, appears there as the " Law of the Heterogony 

 of Ends," which signifies that acts of the Will produce 

 effects which greatly extend beyond the impulses or 

 motives that prompt them, creating hereby new values, 

 an increasing manifold of the phenomena of moral life or 

 of moral goods. Through this process there is created 

 an objective world of morality or of ethical goods which 

 themselves again react upon the individual consciousness.-^ 

 By this conception and from this point of view the ethi- 

 cal philosopher is driven on to a study of the universal 

 or collective mind as distinguished from the individual. 

 A similar tendency existed, as we have had occasion to 

 note, in the Hegelian philosophy : to seek and find the 

 realisation of the ideal or spiritual forces in the histori- 

 cal creations of culture and civilisation. Similarly 

 Wundt has been driven, by an independent course of 

 thought, to the study of mankind, combining the interest 

 in the more advanced products of culture with that for 

 more primitive and elementary forms : the history of 

 advanced societies and their culture with that of primi- 

 tive peoples and their customs : Sociology and Anthro- 

 pology in the widest sense of the word. In attaching 

 great importance to these anthropological studies, the 



1 Compare with this Fouillee's 

 theory of the Idies -forces and 

 Guyau's conception of Life as an 



expanding principle referred to 

 above (pp. 237 sqq.) 



