﻿WITH 
  THE 
  DOMAIN 
  OF 
  THE 
  INORGANIC 
  75 
  

  

  and 
  to 
  offspring; 
  to 
  regularly 
  recurrent 
  times 
  and 
  seasons 
  and 
  risks 
  

   of 
  injury; 
  to 
  its 
  ante-natal 
  life 
  and 
  to 
  dying 
  at 
  the 
  proper 
  time! 
  

   If 
  we 
  are 
  to 
  consider 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  in 
  its 
  totality 
  we 
  must 
  not 
  

  

  v 
  

  

  overlook 
  the 
  practically 
  universal 
  pervasiveness 
  of 
  beauty 
  of 
  form 
  

   and 
  colour. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  that 
  this 
  impressionist 
  picture 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  

   is 
  one-sided, 
  that 
  it 
  ignores 
  the 
  redness 
  of 
  tooth 
  and 
  claw, 
  tho 
  

   cruelty, 
  the 
  ugliness, 
  the 
  parasitism, 
  the 
  obtrusively 
  enormous 
  mortal- 
  

   ity, 
  and 
  the 
  mis-adaptations. 
  Much 
  of 
  this 
  objection 
  is 
  due 
  to 
  

   misunderstanding; 
  the 
  admittedly 
  great 
  difficulties 
  that 
  remain 
  will 
  

   be 
  discussed 
  in 
  Lecture 
  XVIII. 
  

  

  Comparing 
  the 
  realm 
  of 
  organisms 
  with 
  the 
  domain 
  of 
  the 
  in- 
  

   organic, 
  we 
  must 
  avoid 
  the 
  error 
  of 
  exaggerating 
  the 
  differences 
  

   (so 
  that 
  an 
  impression 
  of 
  discontinuity 
  is 
  created) 
  and 
  the 
  error 
  

   of 
  merging 
  the 
  two 
  (thus 
  missing 
  what 
  is 
  distinctive 
  in 
  each). 
  

   In 
  the 
  domain 
  of 
  the 
  inorganic 
  there 
  is 
  little 
  individuality 
  (though 
  

   much 
  difference 
  of 
  quality), 
  no 
  apparent 
  freedom 
  of 
  action, 
  no 
  

   endeavour, 
  no 
  purposiveness, 
  no 
  learning 
  in 
  the 
  school 
  of 
  tinu'. 
  

   But 
  its 
  uniformity 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  probably 
  indispensable 
  fulcrum 
  for 
  

   the 
  lever 
  of 
  will. 
  It 
  should 
  be 
  noted 
  too 
  that 
  the 
  old 
  view 
  of 
  inert 
  

   matter 
  has 
  given 
  place 
  to 
  a 
  dynamic 
  conception 
  of 
  extraordinary 
  

   subtlety. 
  

  

  