COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



tific previsions, and his systems of philosophy, 

 which embrace alike the earliest traceable cosmi- 

 cal changes and the latest results of civilization, 

 • — the intellectual gulf is certainly far wider than 

 that which divides the Australian from the fox 

 who hides the bird which he has killed, in order 

 to return when hungry to eat it. 



It remains to add that the later and more 

 conspicuous stages of this kind of intellectual 

 progress have obviously been determined by the 

 increase in the size and heterogeneity of the 

 social environment. For the integration of com- 

 munities to which this increase is due has not 

 only indirectly aided the advances in scientific 

 knowledge requisite for making mental adjust- 

 ments to long sequences, past and future, but it 

 has also directly assisted the disposition to work 

 patiently in anticipation of future returns, by 

 increasing the general security and diminishing 

 the chances that the returns to labour may be 

 lost. 



The extension of the correspondence between 

 subjective and objective relations in time and in 

 space answers to that kind of primary integra- 

 tion which underlies the process of evolution in 

 general. In treating of the enlarged area,, in 

 time and space, throughout which inner relations 

 are adjusted to outer relations, we have been 

 treating of intellectual progress regarded as a 

 growth. But in proceeding to speak of the in- 



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