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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. § 18i. At the close of a work like thls, it is more than usually needful to contemplate as a whole that which the successive chapters have presented in parts. A coherent knowledge implics something more than the establishment of connexions; wo must not rest after seeing how each minor group of truths falls into its place within some major group, and how all the major groups fit together. It is requisite that we should retire a space, and, looking at tho. entire structure from a distance at which details are lost to vicw, observe its general character. Something more than recapitulation--something more even than an organized re-statement, will come within tho scope of the chapter. Wo shall find that in their ensemble the general truths reached exhibit, under certain aspects, a oneness not hitherto observed. There is, too, a special reason for noting how the various divisions and sub-divisions of the argument consolidate; namely, that tho theory at large thereby obtains a final illustration. Tho reduction of the generalizations that have been set forth to a completely integrated state, exemplifics once more the process of Evolution, and strengthens still further tho general fabric of conclusions. § 185. Hero, indeed, wo find ourselves brought round unexpectedly, and very significantly, to the truth with which We set out, and with which our re-survey must commence. For this integrated form of knowledge is tho form which, apart from the doctrine of Evolution, we decided to be tho highest form. When we inquired what constitutes Philosophy--when wo compared men's various conceptions of Philosophy, so that, eliminating the elements in which they differed we might see in what they agreed; we found in them all, tho tacit implication that Philos...