COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



arrangement and the resultant feeling, it never- 

 theless does not concern itself with the relation 

 between the external cause and the internal 

 effect, but only with the internal effect. 



Now, as Mr. Spencer has forcibly pointed 

 out, " so long as we state facts of which all the 

 terms lie within the organism, our facts are 

 anatomical or physiological, and in no degree 

 psychological. Even though the relation with 

 which we are dealing is that between a nervous 

 change and a feeling, it is still not a psycholo- 

 gical relation so long as the feeling is regarded 

 merely as connected with the nervous change, 

 and not as connected with some existence lying 

 outside the organism. . . . For that which dis- 

 tinguishes psychology from the sciences on 

 which it rests is that each of its propositions 

 takes account both of the connected internal 

 phenomena and of the connected external phe- 

 nomena to which they refer. In a physiologi- 

 cal proposition an inner relation is the essential 

 subject of thought ; but in a psychological pro- 

 position an outer relation is joined with it as 

 a coessential subject of thought. A relation in 

 the environment rises into coordinate impor- 

 tance with a relation in the organism. The 

 thing 'contemplated is now a totally different 

 thing. It is not the connection between the 

 internal phenomena, nor is it the connection 



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