12 Evolution of Life and Form. 



materialistic and less aggressive ; and we shall see 

 presently that the most modern of modern science 

 not quite the science that you get in your text- 

 books, for that is practically out-of-date in the 

 rush of thought which comes from the West, but 

 the science of the leaders of thought, the science 

 of the first men in the scientific camp is more and 

 more approaching the domain where scientists will 

 recognise religion as helper and not as enemy. 

 In fact, speaking from the same chair from which 

 Tyndall had uttered his famous phrase that "in 

 matter he saw the promise and potency of every 

 form of life," his successor, Sir William Crookes, a 

 member of our own Theosophical Society, declared, 

 reversing those words of his predecessor, that " In 

 life I see the promise and potency of all forms of 

 matter." 



Such is the great change. L,et us now examine 

 in detail. The fundamental difference between 

 ancient and modern science is that ancient science 

 studies the world from the standpoint of life which 

 is evolving, while modern science studies the world 

 by observing the forms through which that life is 

 manifesting. The first studies life, and sees in 

 forms the expressions of life. The second studies 

 forms, and tries, by the process of induction, to find 

 out if there be an underlying principle by which the 



