the centrally important place that Man, when viewed as a
product of Nature, occupies in our ordinary views about
the cosmos. And so the development of our Metaphysics
of Nature will enable us, before we are done, to sketch an
hypothesis as to the meaning of the processes known to
us men, at present, under the now favorite name Evolution.
The sense in which Nature is a realm of fixed law
will also engage our attention; and in the same connection
we shall prepare the way for our theory of the Freedom
of the Will. Passing over, after we have studied
these problems, to what is properly called the Moral
World, we shall, in our closing lectures, apply our general
interpretation of Being to a study of the Human Self,
of its Place in Being, and of the Moral Order, to a
consideration of the problem of Evil, and finally to
a statement of what seem to us to be the results of
Idealism regarding the final relations of the Absolute
and the human Individual, or in ordinary speech, of God
and Man. In this connection we shall be led to state
briefly our own thesis regarding Immortality. Herewith
the task of these lectures will be completed.
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I pass to the promised general considerations regarding the limitations of our human type of knowledge, and regarding the organization of experience.
All knowledge is of matters of experience, — this principle we ourselves have maintained as part of our Idealism. But what does this proposition mean when applied
