THE RELATIONAL ELEMENT IN MONISM: I. II. III. IV. V. VI

IN the ever-changing panorama which the world offers to the contemplation of sentient beings, two characters have never failed to arouse the interest of the human mind, to provoke it to the activities of philosophic thought--the manner in which objects are related to each other, and the nature of the objects themselves. Being under necessity of adapting himself to it, man looks to the external world for the materials of an organized intellectual awareness to its twofold aspect of extension, or so-called "space," of succession, or so-called "time.