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Excerpt from A Sketch of a Philosophy In this concluding Part of "A Sketch of a Philosophy" (and in the preceding Parts no less), the views commonly held on the same subjects have scarcely ever been placed in contrast with those which are here advanced, or the evidence in favour of either balanced. Our philosophy has been presented to the reader mainly as a cycle of thought, arising out of an unity, given by consciousness as a reality, which developes into variety, and which as it flows is met in its course by Nature verifying it on all hands in actual phenomena. With these phenomena the reader is supposed to be well acquainted, so as to be able on his own suggestion to connect together our deduction or development with the corresponding phenomenon as a verification. For the author to have gone on verifying as he proceeded would have required many volumes, and such an interruption of investigation as would have made it impossible to accomplish what he believes that he has accomplished. If it be asked what this is, the answer is, that the student of science by admitting three fundamental ideas - (1.) An Infinite and Perfect Being the fountain of all; (2.) finite Being, His creation, and as it were His shadow, given by His breath in space and time; and (3.) the Law of Assimilation, the cosmical law, the sole law of nature, whether matter or spirit - the student in - science may save himself the time and trouble of acquiring a vast number of technicalities and formulae, and much besides that commonly goes by the name of science, and proceed at once to explain in a manner satisfactory to himself, if he be free from bias due to antecedent training, the most part of what he reads about or observes around him - provided his observation or narrative be accurate, and in any measure proportional in quantity to the whole of what he proposes to explain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."