'It is not for nothing that a man has in him sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident but a product of his time. While he is a descendant of the past he is a parent of the future; and his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Not as adventitious therefore will the wise man regard the faith that is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world.'[84] NOTES [1] _Fragments of Science_, vol. ii, p. 132. [2] _Essays_, vol. i (American reprint), p. 3. [3] _Op. cit._, p. 32. [4] _Op. cit._, p. 58. [5] Cf. W. K. Clifford, _Lectures and Essays_, vol. i, p. 95. [6] _More Letters_, vol. ii, p. 235. [7] _Memories and Studies_, p. 139. [8] _Ibid._, p. 140. [9] _Autobiography_, vol. i, p. 212. [10] James, _op. cit._, p. 124. [11] _Autobiography_, vol. i, p. 211. [12] _First Principles_, Sixth (Popular) Edition, p. 446 (hereafter F. P.). [13] _Principles of Psychology_, Third Edition, vol. i, p. 508 (hereafter Ps.). [14] Ps., vol. i, p. 627. [15] _Ibid._, p. 158. [16] F. P., p. 155. [17] Ps., vol. ii, p. 484. [18] There is '_intrinsic_ force by which a body manifests itself as occupying space, and that _extrinsic_ force distinguished as energy'. F. P., p. 150. [19] 'Divest the conceived unit of matter of the objective correlate to our subjective sense of effort and the entire fabric of physical conceptions disappears.' F. P., p. 151 note. Cf. Ps., vol. ii, pp. 237, 239. [20] F. P., p. 171. [21] e.g. 'Social changes take directions that are due to the joint actions of citizens determined as are those of all other changes wrought by the composition of forces.' 'The flow of capital into business yielding the largest returns, the buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, the introduction of more economical modes of manufacture, the development of better agencies for distribution, exhibit movements taking place in directions where they are met by the smallest totals of opposing forces.' F. P., pp. 193-6. [22] _Creative Evolution_, English translation, p. 53. [23] _Op. cit._, pp. 385, 6. [24] According to Dr. Carr's interpretation of M. Bergson, 'The whole world, as it is presented to us and thought of by us, is an illusion. Our science is not unreal, but it is a transformed reality. The illusions may be useful, may, indeed, be necessary and indispensable, but nevertheless it is illusion.' _Problem of Truth_, p. 66. [25] _Creative Evolution_, p. 389. [26] 'But, when I posit the facts with the shape they have for me to-day, I suppose my faculties of perception and intellection such as they are in me to-day; for it is they that portion the real into lots, they that cut the facts out of the whole of reality.' C. E., p. 389. [27] _Creative Evolution_, p. 389.