COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



science in the greater generality, abstractness, 

 and remoteness of the relations which it formu- 

 lates, and also in its larger and more complex 

 organization of general truths into a coherent 

 system. Or, to sum up by a set of rough and 

 general, though not severely accurate, contrasts 

 (which, after all the foregoing explanation, 

 we may safely do) : Common Knowledge ex- 

 presses in a single formula a particular truth 

 respecting a particular group of phenomena ; 

 Science expresses in a single formula a general 

 truth respecting an entire order of phenomena ; 

 Philosophy expresses in a single formula a uni- 

 versal truth respecting the whole world of phe- 

 nomena. 



Philosophy therefore remains, as of old, the 

 study of the Cosmos — save that it is the study 

 of phenomena, not of noumena ; of evolution, 

 not of creation ; of laws, not of purposes ; of 

 the How, not of the Why. 



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