PREFACE 



the character and position of the system of 

 thought to which the nomenclature is applied. 

 Without implying that Mr. Spencer should be 

 held responsible for everything that is main- 

 tained in the following pages, I believe that the 

 system here expounded is essentially his, and 

 that such supplementary illustrations as I have 

 added are quite in harmony with the fundamen- 

 tal principles which he has laid down. 



Much of the new critical matter thus appears 

 to be concerned with questions of nomenclature 

 and other questions which hinge directly or re- 

 motely upon these. And considering how im- 

 portant are the " counters of thought," and 

 how often they are made to do duty as its hard 

 money, it will perhaps be felt that too much em- 

 phasis has not been laid upon these points. The 

 rest of the new critical matter, as before hinted, 

 occurs in Part III., where it is attempted to 

 show that the hostility between Science and 

 Religion, about which so much is talked and 

 written, is purely a chimera of the imagination. 

 Putting the case into other language, it may be 

 said that to assert a radical hostility between 

 our Knowledge and our Aspirations is to pos- 

 tulate such a fundamental viciousness in the 

 constitution of things as the evolutionist, at least, 

 is in no wise bound to acknowledge. The real 

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