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relations of things in co-existence; the third, their relations in sequence. Cause expresses the law of evolution in the physical world; spontaneity, that of the spiritual world. Forces are installed in distinct measure and form in space, their initiation is an act of mind. Liberty in actual choice forecloses liberty, and henceforward realized force moves with a necessary impulse to its goal.
These ideas admit of a collective grouping in reference to the method in which they cover all phenomena.
We start with existence as the fundamental affirmation in connection with all facts. This is followed by a recognition of their plurality, and this we are speaking of logical order by their variety. Plurality and variety, number and resemblance, tend at once to emphasize each other, though the latter, in its discrimination, is an advance on the former. These three ideas are common to all phenomena, whether of matter or of mind. At this point the stream of events divides, though its facts flow forward in each branch alike under the idea of time. Physical events, arising in space, and impelled by forces, take up the notion of causation. Mental phenomena show themselves in consciousness, and are linked, so far as they are purely mental facts, by spontaneity. The law of pure mental action is truth. This connection constitutes the logical coherence of thought. But rational conduct includes liberty, and liberty as choice
