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in process of more perfect adaptation ; perhaps some 

 new immunities are being evolved ; but little is certain. 

 Two lines of possible evolution seem to be particularly 

 promising, an increase in the complexity of cerebral 

 inter-relations and a change of the rhythm of life 

 so that the youthful period is extended and the senes- 

 cent period abbreviated. Modern man is becoming 

 aware of new methods of controlling not only the indi- 

 vidual life, but racial evolution. 



10. A "materialism" is an attempt to give a false 

 simplicity to the ways of organisms by trying to fit 

 them into the descriptive frameworks of chemistry 

 and physics, without recognizing the distinctiveness 

 of "life" and "mind." So a "biologism" is an attempt 

 to give a false simplicity to the life of man by trying 

 to fit it into the descriptive framework of zoology. 

 This may be illustrated by fatalistic theories of he- 

 redity which depreciate the extent to which man can 

 trade with his talents; by an obtrusive physiology 

 which insinuates that the ductless glands altogether 

 determine the personality; and by an evolutionism 

 that makes little of man's apartness and fails to 

 realize the part he plays and may play in directing 

 his own evolution. 



11. There cannot be any radical antithesis be- 

 tween scientific description and religious interpreta- 

 tion. There may be clashing as to details and forms 

 of expression, but not in principle. Science and reli- 

 gion work with incommensurable categories. The out- 

 come of natural evolution may be religiously inter- 

 preted as "the child of God." 



