AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



better the language and the theories of 

 biological evolution and was the better 

 able to anticipate and guard against the 

 reasoning that might be used by other 

 biologists to refute him. We had many 

 warm debates. 



I tried during the war to tell the 

 American people, as far, at least, as it 

 might be reached through the Atlantic 

 Monthly, something of the nature of the 

 German arguments from biology why 

 there must always be war, why there 

 ought to be war, and even why Germany 

 should win in the war then being waged. 

 For I believed that Americans should 

 know something of this feeling and 

 attitude of the German people or of a 

 large, and certainly very influential, part 

 of them. I do not wish to repeat here, too 

 much of what I have presented in the 

 Atlantic articles. But we need, for the 

 purposes of our present discussion, to 

 recall the essential features of this claim, 

 for this argument from biology for the 

 inevitableness and even the desirability 

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