EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION 



interpretation of the whole scheme of biology. The 

 theory of Evolution has not made good its claims, 

 without for a time obscuring larger questions. This 

 is however, only an incidental feature in the progress 

 of observation and of thought. It is impossible to 

 widen the range of reflection, yet dwarf the thinker. 

 The oldest questions are still the newest, and these 

 are the questions concerning the life, the powers, the 

 destiny of man. It is impossible that the problems 

 of philosophy should be of small significance in these 

 times. Questions that have absorbed the interest of 

 thinkers even from the days of Socrates downwards, 

 cannot be cast into oblivion. Inquiries which have 

 re-appeared from age to age throughout the history 

 of men, civilised and uncivilised, must have their 

 acknowledgment within biological science. Thus, the 

 religious life, which has appeared in all divisions of 

 the & globe, and in all phases of tribal or national 

 organisation, must find its logical position in natural 

 history. Biology cannot at the same time ^ include 

 man, and exclude prominent characteristics of human 

 life. Science having achieved the extension of its 

 boundaries, must now give heed to all that has been 

 enclosed. A greatly extended task has thus been 

 thrown upon biologists. Those who undertake ex 

 position of the laws of inheritance, must make full 

 account of the heritage. Observations as to monkeys 

 and apes being accepted as within the boundaries, 

 their permanent value will be determined by their 

 relation to human faculty, and to the work which the 

 human family have achieved, from remote ages, in 

 modifying and enlarging the conditions of life. 



If Philosophy has often erred, as Spinoza main- 



