COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



going." But with us, the impressions which we 

 receive and the motions which we make are 

 endlessly varied, and the complex combinations 

 of them occur severally with less frequency 

 than is the case with the simpler combinations 

 formed by lower animals. They are accordingly 

 not coordinated before birth, though they are 

 easily coordinated during childhood.^ 



A great number of psychical phenomena are 

 thus satisfactorily explained by the hypothesis. 

 But one further service, and a most signal one, 

 is rendered by it ; and this we must briefly in- 

 dicate, in accordance with previous promises, 

 before leaving the subject. The view of cere- 

 bral action here adopted settles the long-vexed 

 question between the Lockian and Kantian 

 schools as to the sources of knowledge ; and 

 the verdict, while partly favourable to each of 

 these schools, is not wholly favourable to either. 

 Let us reconsider the portion of our hypothesis 

 which bears upon this question. 



It follows from the general principles in- 

 volved in the foregoing exposition, that the 

 peculiar intellectual activity of any parent, by 



1 In the concluding chapter of this Part, I shall endeavour 

 to show that this origination and prolongation of the period of 

 infancy, which is the effect of increasing intelligence, is in turn 

 the proximate cause of the genesis of social relations and of 

 ethical feelings, and thus, indirectly, of the entire intellectual 

 and moral supremacy of man. 



