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hypothesis by bringing into light the inconsistencies involved therein.
One may suppose that the relation in question is simply that of development. The inner nature develops itself into the outer
nature as the plant grows into a tree or the Stages of world develops itself into the present form development of the same from the primal state of nebulous matter. thing-itsdi. fficulties.
" What lends plausibility to this hypothesis
is the fact of the inner nature being more subtle than the outer nature which is grosser than the former. The very characteristic indication of an effect, is its grossness and the reason of it, is to be found in the fact that what remains unmanifested in the cause becomes manifested in the effect.
But unfortunately the advocates of this theory overlook the serious difficulties which lurk in it. First of all we draw attention to this that if they be the different stages of development of the same thing, then by the very nature of the case, they cannot be co-existent. Development implies change ; change implies time. And 'stages' have any significance only with reference to different periods of time. As the plant
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