COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



complicated the conception of the Cosmos with 

 that of anthropomorphic agencies that are ex- 

 tra-cosmic. We have seen that the process of 

 scientific generalization, which underlies the evo- 

 lution of philosophy from epoch to epoch, is 

 characterized not by the elimination of these 

 agencies, but by their integration into a single 

 Agency, from which the anthropomorphic attri- 

 butes are stripped, and which is regarded as re- 

 vealed in and through the Cosmos. Manifestly, 

 then, while it is impossible to define this pro- 

 cess as a development from Anthropomorphism 

 to Positivism, it is on the other hand strictly 

 accurate and entirely appropriate to define it 

 as a development from Anthropomorphism to 

 Cosmism. I do not know where we could find, 

 for our purpose, a pair of terms more happily 

 contrasted. For besides the connotations just 

 described, there is also involved in this termi- 

 nology the recognition of the fact that, at the 

 outset, men interpreted the Cosmos in terms 

 of human feeling and volition ; while, on the 

 other hand, as the newest result of scientific 

 generalization we now find them beginning to 

 interpret human feeling and volition in terms 

 obtained from the objective study of the Cos- 

 mos. 



Let it be noted also, that, along with this 

 group of happy contrasts, there is an equally 

 happy lack of antagonism between our pair of 

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