CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER VI 



THE EMPIRICAL ORDER 



The development of the last two stages falls within the limits of social 

 evolution, and breaks up into subordinate phases. 



(i) In tracing these we begin with the consideration of the 

 empirical order. (2) But there is an earlier stage, of which we find 

 survivals, in which this order is not formed. This stage is char-, 

 i acterised : (a} by the absence of the common sense categories ; (b) 

 by the dependence of belief on feeling. (3) The empirical order, 

 the characteristic product of the second stage, does not exhaust 

 reality. (4) Consequently another order is built up, (5) which 

 comes to be contrasted with the empirical as the supernatural. 



Pp. 90-107 



CHAPTER VII 



THE TWO ORDERS 



(l) The limitations of the empirical order are the natural result of' 

 development under the conditions of survival. (2) This statement 

 assumes a view of reality, which will require justification later. (3) 

 But we have first to trace the history of reconstruction, which has 

 two main phases the conceptual and experiential and two main 

 motives the religious and scientific. (4) The religious recon- 

 struction is dominated by the needs of man, and issues in the 

 formation of a higher spiritual order, which is either set over 

 against the empirical, as in popular monotheism, (5) or seeks to 

 absorb it, as in Oriental mysticism ; (6) but in either case practi- 

 cally confronts man with two orders, which he has to adjust as best 

 he can. - - Pp. 108-121 



CHAPTER VIII 



CONCEPTUAL RECONSTRUCTION 



(i) The main work of Greek philosophy and science lay less in the 

 interrogation of specific experience than in the elaboration of a 

 conceptual order. (2) A conceptual order is constructed without 

 specific reference to experience by analysis and synthesis, (3) and . .. 

 depends for its vitality upon certain principles governing the legiti- r 

 mate use of these operations. (4) When the concept is taken apart 

 from experience, metaphysical difficulties arise. (5) Prominent 

 among these are : first, the formation of unreal abstractions, and 

 secondly, a distorted view of experience as seen, e.g. in the tendency 



