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of that way of thinking or its fatal insufficiency?
For the merit of some very great philsophers such as the Hedonists and Norminalists has been that they have carried out their principles with such severe logic as virtually to reduce them to absurdity.

Spencer's followers and, no doubt, Spencer himself imagined that he was the father of evolutionism.
But almost all great philosophers have had a theory as to how the Cosmos came about, a theory lying near the heart of their systems.
Such a theory must either suppose the Cosmos eternal and immutable or it must be evolutionary theory.
Foreven a system of Emanation is a kind