World or Universe

World or universe crossword clue. A quick crossword clue that last seen in Daily Mail UK on 8 Aug 2017. 6 letters

Answer: COSMOS

The real issue comes into view in the attempt, undertaken in the interest of freedom, to substitute for the notion of the world as a cosmos pervaded by no discernible principle and in its essence indifferent to the form impressed upon it by its active parts.

The modern doctrine of evolution or ” evolving,” as opposed to that of simple creation, has been defined by Prof. James Sully in the 9th edition of this encyclopaedia as a ” natural history of the cosmos including organic beings, expressed in physical terms as a mechanical process.”

It would seem that, in the extreme spiritual vicissitudes of his life, conscious alternately of personal weakness and of the largest speculative grasp, he at times threw himself entirely on the consolations of evangelical faith, and at others reconstructed the cosmos for himself in terms of Neo-Platonism and the philosophy of Schelling.