COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



fresh significance is given to the truth vaguely- 

 surmised by Herakleitos, that ceaseless change 

 is the law of all things, and that the universe 

 of phenomena is in a never-ending flux. But 

 the scientific demonstration further shows us 

 that the change is always from an old state to 

 a new state, and thence to another new state, 

 but never back to the old state. Among the 

 untold millions of forces which science contem- 

 plates as cooperating to bring about any given 

 state of things, the permutations and combina- 

 tions are practically infinite ; and not until they 

 have all been exhausted can an expired epoch 

 be reproduced in all its features. 



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