The Strategy of Cosmic Obligation

Abstract

The individual is small and the cosmos large, how large we do not at present know. For when we say “the cosmos” we are talking, remember, about all material orders, which is to say, about all species of actual organizations. The cosmos is, then, for all existing things the ground-state, and in considering the whole of the cosmos we are bound to encounter difficulties. We shall consider a few of these which arise from the paradoxes and which are inevitably involved in any kind of ultimate confrontation.