COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



statement, while it expresses the fundamental 

 theorem of what is known as the experience-phi- 

 losophy, recognizes also a germ of truth in the 

 Kantian doctrine of necessity. When, in a future 

 chapter, the exposition of the Doctrine of Evo- 

 lution shall have advanced so far that we may 

 profitably consider the nature of the process by 

 which intelligence has arisen, we shall be en- 

 abled to carry much farther the reconciliation, 

 here dimly foreshadowed, between the great 

 opposing theories of the experientialists and the 

 intuitionalists. However difficult it may be to 

 realize that this apparently interminable contro- 

 versy is at length to be decided and passed over 

 as antiquated, like the yet longer dispute be- 

 tween Nominalism and Realism, it will never- 

 theless be shown that this is the case. It will be 

 shown that the Doctrine of Evolution affords 

 the means of reconciling the psychology of 

 Locke and Hume with the psychology of Leib- 

 nitz and Kant, not by any halfway measures of 

 compromise, but by fusing the two together in 

 a synthesis deeper and more comprehensive than 

 either of them singly has succeeding in making. 

 At present, however, merely hinting at these 

 conclusions which are by and by to follow, we 

 must address ourselves to a yet more arduous 

 task of reconciliation, — : the task of reconciling 

 our ineradicable belief in the existence of some- 

 thing external to ourselves with the scientific 

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