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  THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  

  

  absolutism. 
  Yet 
  the 
  old 
  order 
  changed, 
  giving 
  place 
  to 
  a 
  

   new 
  the 
  whole 
  inorganic 
  world 
  was 
  more 
  and 
  more 
  com- 
  

   pletely 
  and 
  consistently 
  analysed 
  in 
  terms 
  of 
  dynamics. 
  

  

  In 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  realm 
  of 
  organisms 
  also 
  the 
  outlook 
  

   changed. 
  The 
  filiations 
  of 
  living 
  creatures 
  were 
  discovered 
  

   and 
  the 
  special 
  creationists 
  retreated 
  before 
  the 
  evolutionists. 
  

   It 
  was 
  shown 
  that 
  the 
  living 
  body 
  is 
  the 
  theatre 
  of 
  many 
  

   chemical 
  and 
  physical 
  operations 
  in 
  a 
  line 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   inorganic 
  domain. 
  The 
  chains 
  of 
  physiological 
  events 
  that 
  

   make 
  up 
  everyday 
  functions 
  and 
  behaviour 
  were 
  disclosed. 
  

   Plants 
  and 
  animals 
  were 
  brought 
  under 
  the 
  reign 
  of 
  law. 
  

   The 
  fitnesses 
  or 
  adaptations 
  which 
  seemed 
  to 
  speak 
  so 
  elo- 
  

   quently 
  of 
  a 
  direct 
  Designer 
  were 
  shown 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  outcome 
  

   of 
  long-continued 
  processes 
  of 
  varying 
  and 
  sifting. 
  And 
  

   when 
  Man's 
  zoological 
  place 
  in 
  Nature 
  was 
  recognised, 
  the 
  

   anthropocentric 
  theory 
  saw 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  its 
  end. 
  Even 
  

   for 
  those 
  who 
  continue 
  to 
  maintain, 
  rightly 
  we 
  think, 
  that 
  

   organism 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  mechanism, 
  that 
  organic 
  evolution 
  

   is 
  not 
  a 
  mechanical 
  process, 
  that 
  thinking, 
  feeling, 
  and 
  

   willing 
  are 
  activities 
  that 
  count, 
  that 
  man 
  transcends 
  his 
  

   ancestry, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  only 
  legitimate 
  but 
  necessary 
  

   to 
  regard 
  the 
  cosmic 
  process 
  in 
  the 
  light 
  of 
  its 
  outcome 
  

   the 
  whole 
  aspect 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  has 
  changed. 
  

  

  But 
  experience 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  limit 
  to 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  

   scientific 
  methods, 
  and 
  a 
  new 
  psychology 
  began 
  to 
  accom- 
  

   pany 
  the 
  new 
  physiology, 
  rather 
  at 
  the 
  risk 
  of 
  its 
  own 
  life, 
  

   to 
  be 
  sure, 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  partner's 
  appetite. 
  The 
  outlook 
  

   was 
  changed 
  by 
  the 
  disclosure 
  of 
  the 
  close 
  interdependence 
  

   of 
  what 
  is 
  conveniently 
  called 
  ' 
  mind 
  ' 
  and 
  what 
  is 
  con- 
  

   veniently 
  called 
  ' 
  body 
  ', 
  by 
  increased 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  

   individual 
  development 
  and 
  racial 
  evolution 
  of 
  mental 
  

   powers 
  or 
  modes 
  of 
  behaviour, 
  by 
  a 
  disclosure 
  of 
  a 
  certain 
  

  

  