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exemplar for human conduct. ''Ethics would thus become 

 applied Natural History." 



But, nevertheless, he will have none of it, and 

 inveighs instead ferociously against " philosophasters " and 

 "moralizing sentimentalists" who have made "confused 

 employment " of such tenets. " Per picciola cagione pigliasi 

 il lupo il montone " ! 



Had the Stoics but seen that " cosmic nature is the very 

 headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature " ! (Italics mine.) 

 There must have been something wrong somewhere with these 

 otherwise admirable men ! He surmises that they were the 

 descendants of "joyous fighting men " who with all their war- 

 like qualities had found the cosmos too strong for them, who 

 had become " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought," and 

 were now seeking " salvation in absolute renunciation." 



Huxley's arguments, of course, are in part already 

 answered by what has been said about Symbiogenesis. Nor 

 was it (rebellious) man that established Symbiogenesis ; but 

 Symbiogenesis established man. Ethics, indeed, accounts for 

 Evolution quite as much as Evolution accounts for Ethics. In 

 the beginning Ethics was little perceptible, and so was Evolu- 

 tion. The share of the universe in the begetting of man, how- 

 ever, must have been positive and great. 



We shall allow, of course, that Huxley, like Wallace and 

 others, was greatly devoted to his master Darwin, whose great 

 example of work and whose great personality had deservedly 

 won him numerous apostles. The disciples thought they 

 beheld a new world, and in their enthusiasm they became 

 rhapsodical. 



The true Huxley, no doubt, belonged to a pure enough 

 species of reformer. " Anaphylactised " with the poison of 

 " Natural Selectionism," however, which he was never really 

 able to assimilate, he was never quite the same again. He 

 became a " Zucht-wahl " prophet par excellence a variety of 

 which Europe has since produced several psychologically and 

 physiologically interesting specimens. One might have written 



