ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS. XXI 



BOOK III. 



Chapter IX. IMan and the World .... 245 



§ I. Its subject, the "material" environment. 

 §§ 2-1 1. Space and Time and their infinity. § 2. The 

 senses of infinii\\ the popular, >5 3, the proper, and § 4, 

 the mathematical sense ; but infinity is inapplicable to 

 quantity. § 5. There is no need to regard the infinity 

 of Time and Space as anything but ideal ; and § 6, it is 

 impossible to infer from this ideal infinity that of the real 

 world, which would render knowledge impossible. § 7. 

 The metaphysical difficulties of infinity. Space and Time 

 abstractions. § 8. Infinite Time self-contradictory. An 

 infinite whole, an infinite process, and an infinite regress 

 of causes impossible. § 9. These difficulties reappear 

 in science. The dissipation of energy in infinite Space. 

 The atom and infinite divisibility. The equilibration 

 of energy. If the world is infinite. Evolution is a mis- 

 take. § 10. In favour of infinity there is only a disa- 

 bility of our thought. In the case of Space this may 

 prove purely subjective and temporary. § 11. But in 

 the case of Time the reality of the world-process is 

 bound up with it. But the consciousness of Time de- 

 pends on that of change. If, then, change can be tran- 

 scended, so can Time. Time, Becoming and Evil, as 

 corruptions of Eternity, Being, and Perfection, and so 

 Time passes into Eternity at the completion of the 

 world-process. 



§§ 12-15. Idealis7n and Science. % 12. The denial 

 of an " external world," a corollary from the primary 

 fact of idealism, which idealists are anxious to avoid. 

 § 13.' That fact being inconclusive in itself must be 

 interpreted either by a universal mind (in which case 

 the world remains an illusion) or, § 14, by transcendent 

 realities, existing in consciousness, but not only in con- 

 sciousness, i.e., the Self and the world are correlative 

 facts, and if ultimate existence is ascribed to the one, 

 it must be also to the other. But they need not turn 

 out to be such as they appear. § 15. Thus idealism 

 refutes materialism, and brings out the distinction be- 

 tween phenomenal and ultimate existence; § 16, but 

 this must be shown in detail. 



