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Between the two, Herbert Spencer interposes with 

 the philosophy of the " Unknowable," which admits the 

 Absolute as a necessary preliminary conception of all 

 philosophical thought, but abandons it as an idea not 

 fruitful in the course of further detailed philosophical 

 speculation. The latter is, with Spencer, confined en- 

 tirely to principles gained by induction and abstraction 

 in the course of an analysis of the things, facts, and 

 events of the phenomenal world. 



