COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



pomorphism and Cosmism, be more clearly 

 illustrated than in this antithesis. Let us now 

 pursue the argument somewhat farther into de- 

 tail, but slightly changing for a moment the 

 point of view, in order that we may not only 

 show the superiority of -the scientific explana- 

 tion, but may also show how the anthropomor- 

 phic theory finds its apparent justification. A 

 theory may be shattered by refutation ; but in 

 order to demolish it utterly it must be accounted 

 for. We shall see that from the very constitu- 

 tion of the human mind, and by reason of the 

 process whereby intelligence has arisen, we are 

 likely everywhere to meet with apparent results 

 of creative forethought ; and that thus in the 

 evolution of intelligence itself these phenomena 

 find their only satisfactory explanation. 



In the chapter on the Evolution of Mind it was 

 shown that the intelligence of any man consists 

 partly of inner relations adjusted from moment 

 to moment in conformity with the outer rela- 

 tions present in his own environment, and partly 

 of organized and integrated inner relations be- 

 queathed him by countless generations of an- 

 cestors, brute and human, and adjusted to the 

 outer relations constantly presented in innu- 

 merable ancestral environments. Throughout 

 all time, therefore, since intelligence first ap- 

 peared upon the earth, the world of conceptions 

 has been maintained in more or less complete 



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