CHAPTER X 



ELECTRICAL CREATION EXPLAINS NATURAL 

 PHILOSOPHY 



HERBERT SPENCER says : ' 'Science is partially uni- 

 fied knowledge; philosophy is completely unified 

 knowledge," and the first knowledge obtained by 

 primitive man was that of sense and inference from 

 such experience. Later there arose a disposition to 

 speculate as to that which lies beyond sense and 

 known only by its effect on sensible things. This 

 speculative propensity is worthy of the highest con- 

 sideration as a means of knowledge. It has de- 

 veloped all of the numerous systems of philosophy 

 which have flourished in the history of the human 

 race. 



First in the order of development comes the 

 knowledge of things through the direct experience of 

 physical sense, then comes imagination, reasoning, 

 theoretic science and speculative philosophy. 



The object of all systems of philosophy is to com- 

 prehend and teach the truth about the world around 

 us, especially that part supposed to exist beyond 

 the range of our senses, and to prescribe what is 

 right and good in the life of man. 



In modern times the attempt to unite all the 

 sciences into a general system has been made by 

 August Comte in France, and Herbert Spencer in 

 England. According to Comte, it was time wasted 



