Philosophy, society and civilization
pp. 301-309
in: Leroy Rouner (ed), Philosophy, religion, and the coming world civilization, Berlin, Springer, 1966Abstract
This third division of the essays in honor of William Ernest Hocking pays him this homage because of his specific achievement in a task essential but always as difficult as it is essential. For these three great categories of human endeavour behave and are behaving like the Edwin Hubble theory of the Cosmos: that is, that having started as one whole, now the galaxies are all with increasing speed withdrawing from one another.
