CHAPTER V 



THE SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE 

 METHODS 1 



TOWARD the close of the preceding 

 chapter I enumerated some of the prin- 

 cipal characteristics which distinguish 

 our Cosmic Philosophy, regarded as a synthesis 

 of scientific truths, from the various metaphysi- 

 cal systems which, by overtly or implicitly con- 

 travening the doctrine of relativity, have sought 

 to arrive at some higher or remoter kind of truth 

 than that which the scientific coordination of 

 experiences can furnish. So far as the psycho- 

 logy of the question is concerned, the doctrine 

 of relativity, with its various implications, has 

 been expounded as fully as is needful for our 

 purposes. But this fundamental doctrine has 

 also an all-important logical aspect, which we 

 shall do well to consider in the present chapter. 

 Having marked out the field to which our in- 

 quiries must be confined, the next thing in 

 order is to indicate the Method upon which 

 our inquiries must be conducted. The posses- 

 sion of a legitimate method of research is even 

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