COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



ble of adjusting inner relations to outer rela- 

 tions beyond the reach of the organs of sense. 

 " Chased animals that make their way across 

 the country to places of refuge out of view are 

 obviously led by combinations of past and pre- 

 sent impressions which enable them to tran- 

 scend the sphere of the senses." And in man, 

 by the aid of science, the correspondence is ex- 

 tended not only over the entire surface of the 

 earth, but through all visible space ; witness the 

 facts that telegraphic reports enable purchasers 

 in New York to adapt their actions to prices 

 in London, and that the inferences of astrono- 

 mers are modified in accordance with chemical 

 changes going on in remote nebulae. 



Along with the extension of the correspond- 

 ence in space there goes on an extension in 

 time, resulting in an enormous increase of the 

 psychical life. Under their more simple forms 

 the two kinds of extension go on together. The 

 rudimentary eye, which enables the organism to 

 anticipate the contact of an approaching opaque 

 body, may serve to illustrate the primitive con- 

 nection between adjustments to external coex- 

 istences and adjustments to external sequences. 

 And it is obvious, without concrete illustration, 

 that in general the more remote are the outer 

 relations to which inner relations are adjusted, 

 the longer will be the interval by which the ad- 

 justment may be made to anticipate the group 

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