AND PHILOSOPHY 9 



T | tion^ and thereby freed the new logic for applica 

 tion to mind and morals and life. When he said 

 of species what Galileo had said of the earth, 

 e pur s( muove, he emancipated, once for all, 

 genetic and experimental ideas as an organon of 

 asking questions and looking for explanations. 



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The exact bearings upon philosophy of the 

 new logical outlook are, of course, as yet, un 

 certain and inchoate. We live in the twilight 

 of intellectual transition. One must add the rash 

 ness of the prophet to the stubbornness of the 

 partizan to venture a systematic exposition of 

 the influence upon philosophy of the Darwinian 

 method. - At best, we can but inquire as to its 

 general bearing the effect upon mental temper * 

 and complexion, upon that body of half-conscious, 

 half-instinctive intellectual aversions and prefer 

 ences which determine, after all, our more de 

 liberate intellectual enterprises. In this vague in 

 quiry there happens to exist as a kind of touch 

 stone a problem of long historic currency that 

 has also been much discussed in Darwinian literaV 

 ture. I refer to the old problem of design versus 

 chance, mind versus matter, as the causal explana 

 tion, first or final, of things. 



As we have already seen, the classic notion of 



