ABSTRACT
Cosmology is the critical examination of the special characteristics of the physical order. Its main problems are: the problem of the nature of Material Existence; problem of the justification of the concept of the Mechanical Uniformity of Nature; problems of Space and Time; problem of the Significance of Evolution; problem of the Place of descriptive Physical Science in the System of Human Knowledge. The work of the Philosophy of Nature and of Mind only begins where that of the experimental sciences leaves off. Cosmology means the critical examination of the assumptions involved in the recognition of the physical as a distinct order of existence, and of the most general hypotheses employed by popular thought and scientific reflection respectively for the description of specially physical existence. The distinction between persons and animals on the one side and mere things on the other seems to rest in the last resort on an important practical consideration.
