COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



But while proving that science is but an 

 extension of ordinary knowledge, it was also 

 proved that the higher orders of knowledge 

 differ from the lower in the greater remoteness, 

 generality, and abstractness of the relations 

 which they formulate, in the greater definite- 

 ness of their formulas, and in their more com- 

 plete organization. Our inquiry into the mutual 

 relations of life and intelligence ^ elicited an ex- 

 actly parallel set of conclusions. It was there 

 shown that psychical life consists in the contin- 

 uous establishment of subjective relations an- 

 swering to objective relations ; and that, as we 

 advance through the animal kingdom from the 

 lowest to the highest forms, this correspondence 

 between the mind and the environment extends 

 to relations which are continually more remote 

 in space and time, more clearly defined, but at 

 the same time more general ; and finally we 

 also traced a progressive organization of cor- 

 respondences. Continually, while passing in 

 review the various aspects of the progress of 

 intelligence in the animal kingdom, we found 

 ourselves ending with illustrations drawn from 

 that progress of human intelligence which is 

 determined by social conditions. Let us now 

 illustrate this subject somewhat further by tra- 

 cing out the intellectual correspondence between 

 man and his environment — as increasing in 

 * See above. Part II. chap. xiv. 



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