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oS MAN AND THE WORLD. 



and all competent to account for the existence of 

 the material world and in harmony with the account 

 given of the spiritual nature of Matter in the above 

 chapter. 



The result, then, of this chapter has been to 

 show that the difficulties presented by the nature 

 of our environment admit of solution only if we 

 refer the phenomenal world to the transcendent or 

 ultimate reality. By this reference we were enabled 

 to transcend the infinities of Space and Time, the 

 conflict of Ideahsm and the facts of life, to give a 

 rough sketch of the nature and function of Matter 

 in the economy of the universe, and so to solve the 

 old puzzles as to the relation of Matter and Spirit, 

 of body and soul. But in so doing, two further 

 subjects were also introduced, those of the nature 

 of God and of Evil. These subjects will have to be 

 investigated In the following chapters, in which it 

 will be necessary to make good the assumptions 

 that God and Good and Evil exist in any intelli- 

 gible sense, and so that they can make intelligible 

 anything else about the world. 



