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Excerpt from The Anatomy of Knowledge: An Essay in Objective Logic While the deductions of mathematics and the discoveries of physical science carry conviction to the thinking world, it would seem that the problems of philosophy are ever being propounded anew, and arc never solved except to the satisfaction of particular schools or sects. One remembers how Milton's dialectically-dis-poscd devils "reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." And, possibly, with the less austere poet, one congratulates himself on having outgrown all such disputatious wisdom: - "Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went." Yet Milton, in the Third Book of his Paradise Lost, docs exactly what he smiles at the devils for doing in the Second. He enters into an elaborate argument to justify the ways of God to man, on the ground of divine foreknowledge being compatible with human free-will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.