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tiful plumage will be the victors, and will leave the most 

 vigorous offspring, and the offspring will have the ten- 

 dency to inherit the same weapons and plumage. This 

 process developes antlers on the male deer and elk, and 

 the beauty of the male birds. By means of this principle 

 Darwin and other evolutionists have attempted to account 

 for the evolution of life and the origin of new species from 

 the old upon purely physical laws. 



We shall see that this theory is true only so far as it 

 goes, and shall also soon see that upon analysis it does 

 not go any further than I stated. That it is merely an 

 incident and a fact that the best man or institution in the 

 struggle for existence will win and live to perpetuate his 

 kind or his institution or business. It does not explain 

 who are the builders of these struggling institutions, 

 structures or beings, nor how the builders are able to put 

 them together. They do not attempt to explain or give 

 any cause why one should inherit the features, form and 

 character of his parents, nor why individuals should vary. 

 In this book I shall attempt to definitely settle these ques- 

 tions, so that we know where we are at, and can start in- 

 vestigations of other and further questions. As Darwin's 

 theory of evolution is based on inheritance, it must fail 

 as a cause, as a great number of ants and bees have neu- 

 trals, that is, they have males, females and workers. These 

 workers can in no way pass on anything to their offspring, 

 as they never have any. These matters will be fully dis- 

 cussed when we get to them. Spencer, like Darwin and 

 others, attempt to show that life is based on chemical and 

 mechanical action. Thay fail, however, to explain the 

 mystery of growth, heredity and instinctive action. To 

 show you how hard they have tried to understand it and 

 how they have twisted the language to say something that 

 would sound like a cause I shall here quote some passages 



