92 COSMIC PHILOSOPHY. [pt. it. 



senses." And in man, by the aid of science, the correspon- 

 dence is extended not only over the entire surface of the 

 earth, but through all visible space ; witness the facts that 

 telegraphic reports enable purchasers in New York to adapt 

 their actions to prices in London, and that the inferences of 

 astronomers are modified in accordance with chemical changes 

 going on in remote nebulae. 



Along with the extension of the correspondence in space 

 there goes on an extension in time, resulting in an enormous 

 increase of the psychical life. Under their more simple forms 

 the two kinds of extension go on together. The rudimentary 

 eye, which enables the organism to anticipate the contact of 

 an approaching opaque body, may serve to illustrate the 

 primitive connection between adjustments to external co- 

 existences and adjustments to external sequences. And it is 

 obvious, without concrete illustration, that in general the 

 more remote are the outer relations to which inner relations 

 are adjusted, the longer will be the interval by which the 

 adjustment may be made to anticipate the group of outer 

 relations which it is designed to balance. But it is only in 

 the higher vertebrates, whose cephalic ganglia are sufficiently 

 large and complex to enable them to form ideal representa- 

 tions of outer relations not immediately present, that there is 

 witnessed a decided extension of the correspondence in time. 

 Dogs and foxes exhibit a well-marked anticipation of future 

 events, in hiding food to be eaten hereafter. But it is first 

 in the human race that such foresight becomes highly con- 

 spicuous ; and the difference between civilized and savage 

 men in this respect is probably even more marked than the 

 difference between savage men and the higher allied mam- 

 mals. There are strong reasons for believing that the more 

 complex correspondences in time are chiefly eff'ected by the 

 cerebrum, while the more complex correspondences in space 

 are chiefly effected by the cerebellum. And if this be the 

 ca^^e, we may understand why it is that in the course of 



