498 THE EVOLUTION OP LIFE. 



itself be interpreted. Only when the process of evolution of 

 organisms is affiliated on the process of evolution in general, 

 can it be truly said to be explained. The thing required is 

 to show that its various results are corollaries from first 

 principles. We have to reconcile the facts with the universal 

 laws of the re-distribution of matter and motion. 



