COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



the very constitution of the thinking mind, as 

 perennial intercourse with the environment has 

 moulded it. 



Mr. Mill, indeed, in his " System of Logic," 

 Book III. chapter xxi., maintains that our belief 

 in the necessity and universality of causation 

 (which was above shown J to be an immediate 

 corollary from the persistence of force) rests 

 upon an induction per enumerationem simplicem, 

 which is, however, valid in this one case, be- 

 cause it is coextensive with all known orders of 

 phenomena. The incompleteness of this view 

 is shown by the fact that the persistence of force 

 is necessarily assumed in every step of the vast 

 induction by which the law of causation is said 

 to be established. Mr. Mill only emphasizes 

 the incompleteness of his view when he repudi- 

 ates the inconceivability test as evidence of the 

 law in question. This point has been already 

 so fully discussed that little more need to be said 

 about it here. When, in a future chapter, we 

 come to deal especially with the evolution of 

 intelligence, we shall see that Mr. Mill's inade- 

 quate treatment of this subject is due to im- 

 perfect mastery of the Doctrine of Evolution. 

 We shall see that the so-called experience phi- 

 losophy is both wider and deeper than Eng- 

 lish psychologists, from Hobbes to Mill, have 

 imagined. We shall see that not only our ac- 



1 See above, Part I. chap. vi. 

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