SECTION I
CLEARING THE WAY
CHAPTER I
THE AIM, AND THE METHOD OF TREATMENT
But that same Where (Space), with its brother When (Time),
are from the first the master-colours of our Dream-Grotto; the
Canvas (the warp and woof thereof) whereon all our Dreams
and Life-Visions are painted.---CARLYLE, <1Sartor Resartus,>1 1830.
WHEN Kant in his investigation of the nature and validity
of human knowledge in the <1Critique of Pure Reason>1 (1781)
undertook an examination of the nature of Space and Time
as the starting point in the discussion, he struck the path
which all fruitful philosophical investigation has followed
since. Since Space and Time are the two "forms' within
which the whole system of life and nature unfolds itself to
the human mind, and are at the same time the "warp and
woof' on which man elaborates his mental sense-picture of
the world, an examination of these two sense-forms should
be the self-evident starting point in any true cosmic philo-
sophy. Yet it seems to have t . . .
