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explains their order of succession, but does not explain 

 how the law came into existence, nor how events are 

 generated, nor how they are coordinated so methodically. 

 Law is simply the rule of coordination ; efficiency pro- 

 duces them and coordinates them. 



Law viewed scientifically is merely a rule of succession; 

 viewed philosophically it is an expression of power and 

 intelligence, a synthesis of force and mind. In the pur- 

 view of science, law is the key to unlock the methods of 

 nature, a clew to guide through the labyrinth of phe- 

 nomena; in the eye of philosophy it is a preconceived 

 plan of action, purposeful of results. While science rests 

 on law as a finality, philosophy seeks the power which 

 ordains law; and, viewing law as the expression of will, 

 it insists on the reality of will by all the evidence which 

 science summons to establish the reality of law. Science 

 claims law as an intelligible principle of coordination 

 among phenomena; and philosophy claims an intelligible 

 principle of .coordination as the exclusive product of in- 

 telligence. The cosmos is comprehensible by thought, be- 

 cause it is the product of thought. Grant the mechanical 

 nature of the processes of the world, the existence of a 

 mechanism which does not express mind is something un- 

 thinkable. 



Science is under no obligation to assume a strange 

 garb and make affirmation of the predicates of philosophy. 

 Such freedom may authorize science to ignore the predi- 

 cates of philosophy, but it confers no privilege to deny 

 them. As long as, maintaining its own character, it ig- 

 nores the principles, postulates or axioms of philosophy, 

 it cannot antagonize philosophy ; but when it offers an 

 argument ex ignorantia against the verdict of philosophy, 



