COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



extent, character, and direction of this contin- 

 uous redistribution. Have the infinitude of 

 changes in the aspect of things, which the 

 rhythm of motion necessitates, any common 

 character, and if they have, what is that charac- 

 ter ? Are the redistributions of matter and mo- 

 tion, which are going on all around us, aimless 

 and unrelated, or do they tend in common 

 toward some definable result ? Can any for- 

 mula be found which will express some dynamic 

 principle, true of the whole endless metamor- 

 phosis ? 



Or, to state the case in a still more concrete 

 form, when we assert " that knowledge is lim- 

 ited to the phenomenal, we have by implication 

 asserted that the sphere of knowledge is coex- 

 tensive with the phenomenal. Hence wherever 

 we now find Being so conditioned as to act 

 on our senses, there arise the questions — how 

 came it thus conditioned? and how will it cease 

 to be thus conditioned ? Unless on the assump- 

 tion that it acquired a sensible form at the mo- 

 Sl ment of perception, and lost its sensible form 

 Jie moment after perception, it must have had 

 "U antecedent existence under this sensible 

 a! \m, and will have a subsequent existence 



i<>r this sensible form. These preceding and 



unc V*eding existences under sensible forms are 



succ V>le subjects of knowledge ; and knowledge 



P ossl Wiously not reached its limits until it has 

 has or I90 



