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  Conclusion

 We conclude our short series of essays covering the basic ground of the eonic effect, and the result generates a new sense of universal history, in a fashion that is adapted to a perspective of science, yet able to encompass the breadth of human emergence in the context of civilization, in all its complexity, including the diversity of religion, especially against the backdrop of the Axial phenomenon. Kant's acute analysis of the issues of causality and freedom matches our analysis in the eonic model almost perfectly, and the result is a coherent outline of history that shows the direct action of evolutionary processes on human self-consciousness as this becomes the medium for the evolution of freedom. We are left with a question, has man's evolution completed? And we can see that the answer is that history is emerging from evolution, and that man's completed evolution must be his self-evolution as a free individual both within and beyond the matrix of evolutionary civilization.