770 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



world the world of thought as distinguished from the 

 GO 34 ' world of things, or generally, the mental as opposed to 

 ^e ma terial world. In a physical picture of the universe 

 this other world must have a definite location. In 

 trying to fix this we are driven to the conclusion that 

 this inner world occupies, though existing in numerous 

 specimens, only an infinitesimally small extent, so small 

 that from the cosmic point of view it seems a negli- 

 gible quantity. 



Limiting ourselves, however, to our terrestrial world, 

 what we term Mind seems to exist in no geometrical 

 place, and nevertheless it seems to exist, in some form 

 or other, over a very extended area in other words, 

 what we term the Mind or the Soul exists individually 

 at no points which can be geometrically fixed ; and yet, 

 as the social mind, it exists somehow over the whole 

 civilised portion of our globe. Such an existence, which 

 is, as it were, nowhere and yet everywhere, escapes the 

 first condition of exact scientific treatment. What has 

 been termed scientific or exact psychology is occupied 

 with purely external physical phenomena, which are in 

 some vaguely apprehended manner connected with what 

 we term mental phenomena ; or it attempts to describe 

 the latter by vague analogies of spatial occurrences, 

 which in no other department of exact science would 

 be considered satisfactory or permissible. 



The naturalist imports into his world-picture, through 

 language and thought, features which do not really be- 

 long to it. He, in fact, transcends the limits of possible 

 observation and presentation by the physical senses, and 

 this foreign element breaks up hopelessly the continuity 



