COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



the others preserved its original homogeneity ; 

 while the contrast between the Aula Regis of 

 the Norman kings and the courts of common 

 law, equity, and admiralty, — county courts, 

 queen*s courts, state courts, and federal courts, 

 — which are hneally descended from it, tells us 

 the same story concerning the judicial power. 

 Nor should it be forgotten that the steady ex- 

 pansion of legal systems, to meet the exigencies 

 which civilization renders daily more complex, 

 is an advance from relatively indefinite homo- 

 geneity to relatively definite heterogeneity. 



Obviously, however, our task is not com- 

 pleted when we have pointed out this general 

 coincidence between the development of soci- 

 ety and the development of life. Nor can the 

 universal law here illustrated be the special law 

 of social progress for which we are seeking. By 

 reason of its very comprehensiveness, the law of 

 universal evolution cannot be regarded as sup- 

 plying the precise kind of information we desire 

 concerning the relations of social to organic phe- 

 nomena. By its aid we have found it possible to 

 interpret not only the development of life, intel- 

 ligence, and society, but also the genesis of plan- 

 etary systems and the evolution of the earth. It 

 is therefore the law not only of social, psychical, 

 and vital changes, but also of inorganic changes. 

 Underlying all the sciences of genesis, and fusing 

 them into one grand science of cosmogony, it 

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