70 DISCRIMINATIONS CHAP. 



of nature, and in the universal recognition 

 of the human mind. 



Let us, therefore, unravel this en- 

 tanglement of separable ideas much 

 more completely than Mr. Spencer has 

 done. And for this purpose let us 

 begin at the bottom with the one 

 fundamental conception which underlies 

 all the theories and speculations that 

 litter the ground before us. That 

 conception is simply represented by the 

 old familiar word, and the old familiar 

 idea of growth or development. It is 

 the conception of the whole world, in 

 us and around us, being a world full of 

 changes, which to-day leave nothing 

 exactly as it was yesterday, and which 

 will not allow to-morrow to be exactly 

 as to-day. It is the conception of some 

 things always coming to be, and of other 

 things always ceasing to be in endless 

 sequences of cause and of effect. It 



