COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



tern expounded in this work, seeks to give syn- 

 thetic expression to the ripest scientific thought 

 of our age. If the question were only one of 

 method, we might acquiesce in this identifica- 

 tion. But as I have already plainly indicated and 

 shall presently show more fully, our divergence 

 from Positivism is so fundamental with regard 

 to the deepest and gravest questions with which 

 Philosophy is concerned, that, as Comte would 

 unquestionably repudiate us as disciples, so do 

 we unhesitatingly repudiate him as a master. 



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