COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



at which morality shades off into religion. For, 

 as I shall hereafter show/ Religion views the 

 individual in his relations to the Infinite Power 

 manifested in a universe of causally connected 

 phenomena, as Morality views him in relation 

 to his fellow creatures. To violate the decrees 

 of Nature comes to be considered a sin, capable 

 of awakening keen remorse ; for to him whose 

 mental habits have been nurtured by scientific 

 studies, the principles of action prescribed by 

 the need for harmonizing inner with outer rela- 

 tions are, in the truest sense, the decrees of 

 God. 



And now, having reached the terminus of 

 our inquiry, let us look back over the course 

 for a moment, that we may see the character of 

 the progress we have achieved. Such a retro- 

 spect is here especially needed, because the com- 

 plexity of our subject has been so great, and the 

 range of our illustrations so wide, that the car- 

 dinal points in our argument have perhaps run 

 some risk of getting overlaid and concealed from 

 view, and in particular it may not be sufficiently 

 obvious how completely we have attained the 

 object set before us as the goal of the present 

 chapter and its predecessor, namely, to explain 

 the genesis of the psychical forces which wrought 

 the decisive change from animality to humanity. 

 ^ See below. Part III. chap. v. 



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