like all generalizations which go beyond the range of possible as well as of actual experience, aprice was paid for the sublime and inspiring ideal of areign of uni- versal and exact law: the sacrifice of the individual to the general, of the concrete to the relational. Spinoza's magnifi- cently sweeping dictum that "the order and connection of ideas is the order and connection of things" was in effect, although not avowedly as it was with Spinoza, the current measure of the intelligibility of nature. And auniverse whose essential characteristic is fixed order and connection has no place for unique and individual existences, no place for novelty and genuine change and growth. It is, in the words of William James, ablock universe. The fact that in detailed content it is athoroughly mechanistic world is, one may say, amere incident attending the fact that it is afixed and closed world.