THE QUESTION RESTATED 



day the interdependence is more complete than 

 ever before. Our cosmic theories are rapidly 

 modified by the incorporation of the results of 

 countless new observations in all departments 

 of science ; and philosophy, refraining more 

 and more from ontological speculations, is be- 

 coming more and more thoroughly identified 

 with cosmology. It is recognizing more and 

 more fully that its proper business is to oversee 

 and coordinate those seemingly separate groups 

 of scientific truths which scientific specialists 

 have not the leisure, and often neither the de- 

 sire nor the ability, to coordinate. And obvi- 

 ously the philosophy most completely organized 

 after this manner constitutes the most complete 

 integration of correspondences between the or- 

 der of conceptions and theorder of phenomena. 

 It constitutes an integral body of knowledge, 

 the various members of which are at once more 

 distinctly demarcated from each other and more 

 intimately dependent upon each other than in 

 any previous system. 



Thus, in accordance with the expectation held 

 out in an earlier chapter,^ we find that " from 

 the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to 

 the latest products of civilization," there has 

 been going on, and is going on, a ceaseless pro- 

 cess of change, of which the main features are 

 simple enough to be clearly deducible from the 

 * See above, vol. ii. pp. 244, 245. 



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