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represented by Huxley, and so are the lessons from Physiology. 

 Both Scriptures and modern Physiology may be said to be in 

 agreement that " As righteousness tendeth to life : so he that 

 pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death." The study of 

 Eugenics more particularly corroborates the saying that 

 " There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there 

 is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." 



The Scriptures fully recognise, what is also clear to the 

 Symbiogenist, that frequently, and for a time, " the wicked 

 doth compass about the righteous " ; but they are equally 

 emphatic that the righteous alone can obtain enduring gains. 

 "An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning: but 

 the end thereof shall not be blessed." "Yet have I not seen 

 the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread." 

 " Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," etc., etc. 



Huxley's, no doubt, is a case of "Un poco di vero fa 

 creder tutta la bugia." We shall not, therefore, accept his 

 totally unwarranted verdict that there is no sanction for 

 morality "in the ways of the cosmos," and that "brought 

 before the tribunal of ethics, the cosmos might well seem to 

 stand condemned." Neither shall we agree with his remark 

 that " After the manner of successful persons, (sic) civilised 

 man would gladly kick down the ladder by which he has 

 climbed." 



Man's advance was by symbiogenesis. All that he has 

 done in opposition to the principles involved he has reason to 

 regret ; for it has led to the extinction of many of his races and 

 never to genuine success. 



It is a pity that it was not given to Huxley, who, as we 

 see, was not without his own particular brand of 

 sentimentalism, to recognise the symbiogenetic steps in the 

 ascent of man. " Tal ha belli occhi che niente vi vede." He 

 concedes nobility and sanity to the Stoics, and admits that their 

 summary of the whole duty of man, "Live according to 

 Nature," would seem to imply that the cosmic process is an 



