“. . . la perfection du système Though along with the extension positif, vers laquelle il tend of generalizations, and sans cesse, quoiqu’il soit concomitant integration of très-probable, qu’il ne doive conceived causal agencies, the jamais l’atteindre, serait de conceptions of causal agencies pouvoir se représenter tous les grow more indefinite; and though divers phénomènes observables as they gradually coalesce into comme des cas particuliers d’un a universal causal agency, seul fait general, p. 5. . . . . . they cease to be representable considérant comme absolument in thought, and are no longer inaccessible, et vide de sens supposed to be comprehensible; pour nous la recherche de ce yet the consciousness of _cause_ qu’on appelle les _causes_, soit remains as dominant to the last premières, soit finales.” p. 14. as it was at first; and can never be got rid of. The consciousness of cause can be abolished only by abolishing consciousness itself.[15] (_First Principles_, § 26.) {128} “Ce n’est pas aux lecteurs de cet Ideas do not govern and ouvrage que je croirai jamais overthrow the world: the world devoir prouver que les idées is governed or overthrown by gouvernent et bouleversent le feelings, to which ideas serve monde, ou, en d’autres termes, que only as guides. The social tout le mécanisme social repose mechanism does not rest finally finalement sur des opinions. Ils on opinions; but almost wholly savent surtout que la grande on character. Not intellectual crise politique et morale des anarchy, but moral antagonism, is sociétés actuelles tient, en the cause of political crises. dernière analyse, à l’anarchie All social phenomena are produced intellectuelle.” p. 48.[16] by the totality of human emotions and beliefs; of which the emotions are mainly pre-determined, while the beliefs are mainly post-determined. Men’s desires are chiefly inherited; but their beliefs are chiefly acquired, and depend on surrounding conditions; and the most important surrounding conditions depend on the social state which the prevalent desires have produced. The social state at any time