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ESSAYS AV PHILOSOPHY 



fore all-important for true human interests that a 

 reality unqualifiedly noumenal shall be vindicated 

 not only to human naticre, but to each particular 

 human mind. If the reasoning about to be em- 

 ployed for this purpose should seem to the reader 

 to carry its conclusions widely beyond man, — as 

 wide as all conscious life, of which human conscious- 

 ness must now be regarded as only the completed 

 Type, — I know no reason why men should hesitate 

 at this, or grudge to living beings whose phenomenal 

 lives are at present less fulfilled than their own the 

 chance for larger existence that immortality and 

 freedom give. But let us come to the argument. 



Reverting to our analysis, we may now clearly 

 see that the elements essential to evolution are 

 simply the elements organic in the human mind. 

 Evolutional philosophy, of whatever form, teaches 

 that these elements — Time, Space, Causation, Logi- 

 cal Unity, Ideality — are, in the human mind, the 

 results of the process of evolution. The agnostic 

 evolutionist holds that they are gradually deposited 

 there through associations ever accumulating in the 

 long experience of successive generations, until at 

 length they become in us practically indissoluble, 

 though theoretically not. The pantheistic idealist 



discussion of this question in T/te Conception of God, pp. 292 f., 305 f., 

 315 mid. (where the last sentence, if logically legitimate, would read, 

 "The antinomy is \^iiof\ solved"), and 321, cf. the foot-note. 



