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more complex organization of general truths into a coherent 

 system. Or, to sum up by a set of rough and general, though 

 not severely accurate, contrasts (which, after all the foregoing 

 explanation, we may safely do) : — Common Knowledge ex- 

 presses in a single formula a particular truth respecting a 

 particular group of phenomena ; Science expresses in a single 

 formula a general truth respecting an entire order of pheno- 

 mena ; Philosophy expresses in a single formula a universal 

 truth respecting the whole world of phenomena. 



Philosophy, therefore, remains, as of old, the study of the 

 Cosmos, — save that it is the study of phenomena not of 

 noumena, of evolution not of creation, of laws not of 

 purposes, of the How ? not of the Why ? 



