COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



quences of his actions to coexistences a thousand 

 feet beneath. Nor is the environment through 

 which his correspondences reach, limited to 

 the surface and the substance of the earth. It 

 stretches into the surrounding sphere of in- 

 finity." In all these respects, the extension of 

 the correspondence achieved during the pro- 

 gress of civilization has been much greater than 

 that achieved during the immediately preceding 

 stages of the evolution of man from an inferior 

 primate. " From early races acquainted only 

 with neighbouring localities, up to modern geo- 

 graphers who specify the latitude and longitude 

 of every place on the globe ; from the ancient 

 builders and metallurgists, knowing but surface 

 deposits, up to the geologists of our day whose 

 data in some cases enable them to describe the 

 material existing at a depth never yet reached 

 by the miner ; from the savage barely able to 

 say in how many days a full moon will return, up 

 to the astronomer who ascertains the period of 

 revolution of a double star, — there has been " 

 an enormous "widening of the surrounding re- 

 gion throughout which the adjustment of inner 

 to outer relations extends." ^ It only remains to 

 add that the later and more conspicuous stages 

 of this progress have been determined by that 

 increase in the size and heterogeneity of the so- 



^ Spencer, Principles of Psychology, vol. i. pp. 317, 319. 

 [Part III. chap. iv. § 144.] 



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