Application of Philosophical Necessity to Responsibility, ... 38 75 83 *Chapter III., on the "Analysis of the Mental Faculties,” phrenologically considered, is omitted in this edition. Proportionate increase of Capital and Population Division of the Produce of Labour Co-operation, Organization of Industry THE PHILOSOPHY OF NECESSITY. INTRODUCTION. THE Philosophy of Necessity is the "reason why" of Necessity. Necessity implies Law or a constant and invariable order of events in the physical and also in the moral world. Reason is exercised in the knowledge and calculation of this fixed order, and if in any department of Nature this order did not reign, in that department there could be no exercise of reason. This is the "reason why" of "Necessity." "Man, the servant and interpreter of Nature, can only understand and act in proportion as he observes or contemplates the order of Nature; more he can neither know nor do." It is now generally admitted that Lord Bacon has defined in the above fundamental principle of the inductive Philosophy, the extent of the knowledge of which man is capable; what Nature has really enabled him and what she has forbidden B |