Note 187 — Chapter VIII · ESSAYS AT CAMBRIDGE—1853 TO 1856.

This Neo-platonic fancy (of δημιουργοί), with which the reader may contrast the serio-comic lines on “Paradoxical Philosophy,” is embodied in the alternative title of the paper—“Ought the Discovery of a Plurality of Intelligent Creators to weaken our Belief in an Ultimate First Cause?” A third title has been added later in the author’s hand—“Does the Existence of Causal Chains prove an Astral Entity or a Cosmothetic Idealism?”