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CHAPTER IX. 



POSTULATES OF EVOLUTION. 



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The Evolution Philosophy requires as its basis certain pos- 

 tulates 1. It presupposes, as its primal conception, the 

 cosmos as a force homogeneous or nearly homogeneous 

 It is either finite or infinite examined under either 

 supposition 2. The evolving force must be assumed 

 equal in amount throughout all time This impossible of 

 proof 3. The hypothesis postulates the inclusion of all 

 change and of every event under the law of the con- 

 tinuous redistribution of matter and motion If mental 

 phenomena cannot be included, this postulate is rejected 

 4. The total of matter in the universe must be granted 

 a fixed quantity and also the total of motion 5. It 

 must further be granted that force as manifested in the 

 cosmos includes in these manifestations all the causes of 

 every change This postulate examined, and found when 

 enlarged so as to embrace all facts, to be worthless to the 

 evolutionist 6. There must be given a determinate ex- 

 tent and relation of parts This postulate examined and 

 the assumptions involved in it set out These postulates 

 essential to the Evolution Hypothesis, . . . 112 



CHAPTER X. 



THE FORMULA or EVOLUTION. 



The formula Is it a law ? The terms examined In what 

 sense " indefinite " ? This concept only thinkable as the 

 negation of definite thought " Incoherent " yields no pre- 

 cise conception " Homogeneity " also vague Summing 

 all up, the total could hardly be surpassed in vagueness 

 Inconsistent with the conception of the imperceptible 

 out of which the existing order rises The " definite, 

 coherent heterogeneity," which is the evolved result does 

 not yield a more exact conception The words * * integra- 

 tion of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion," 

 do not furnish an instrument of exact reasoning This 



