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Two years ago, in the preface to another essay, the present writer ventured to affirm that "Civilisation moves rather towards a chaos than towards a cosmos." But he could not foretell that the descensus Averni would be so alarmingly rapid. When we find Science, which has done so much and promised so much for the happiness of mankind, devoting so large a proportion of its resources to the destruction of human life, we are prone to ask despairingly--Is this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land?. | Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip 1 Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip Project Gutenberg s Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Author Alexander Philip Release Date November 9 2007 EBook 23422 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Produced by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier Michael Zeug Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note Words in Greek in the original are transliterated and placed between plus signs . Words italicized in the original are surrounded by underscores. Characters superscripted in the original are inclosed in brackets. Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip 2 ESSAYS TOWARDS A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Rosalind I pray you what is t o clock Orlando You should ask me what time o day there s no clock in the forest. As You Like It Act III. Sc. 2. ESSAYS TOWARDS A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE BY ALEXANDER PHILIP Illustration LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE SONS LIMITED NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON CO. 1915 hê gar achrômatos te kai aschêmatistos kai anaphês ousia ontôs ousa psychês kybernêtê monôi theatêi nô peri hên to tês alêthous epistêmês genos touton echei ton topon. --PH DRUS. PREFACE Two years ago in the preface to another essay the present writer ventured to affirm that Civilisation moves rather towards a chaos than towards a cosmos. But he could not foretell that the descensus Averni would be so alarmingly rapid. When we find Science which has done so much and promised so much for the happiness of mankind devoting so large a proportion of its resources to the destruction of human life we are prone to .