ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND COSMISM 



Anthropomorphism to Cosmism the religious 

 attitude remains unchanged from the begin- 

 ning to the end. And thus the apparent an- 

 tagonism between Science and ReHgion, which 

 is the abiding terror of timid or superficial 

 minds, and which the Positive Philosophy- 

 did comparatively little to remove, is in the 

 Cosmic Philosophy utterly and forever swept 

 away. 



The further elucidation of these views must 

 be postponed until we come to treat in detail 

 of the relations of science to theism and reli- 

 gion. With this preliminary indication of a the- 

 ory to be hereafter more fully unfolded, the pre- 

 sent chapter might be brought to a close, were 

 it not that our conclusions have been elicited 

 through a criticism of the theory of Comte, 

 and that, at the beginning of our discussion, 

 certain expectations were held out which the 

 close of the discussion may seem to have be- 

 lied. Conformity to the requirements of sound 

 criticism demands that something more should 

 be said upon this point. 



We started in the belief that we were about 

 to trace the outlines of some grand achievement 

 whereby the claims of Comte to philosophic 

 originality might be vindicated. We expressed 

 entire dissent from Professor Huxley's opinion 

 that there is nothing of any value in the Positive 

 Philosophy save that which it has borrowed 



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