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.
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