404 SYMBIOGENESIS 



symbiogenesis some degree of opposition (competition) 

 remaining merely to maintain their respective efficiencies. 



In this spirit of reconciliation it must be granted in spite 

 of excesses committed by intolerant religionists of all ages 

 that the great world-religions have been of immense evolu- 

 tionary value by laying down dietetic and hygienic rules for 

 their adherents to obey. Nor has Science been able to supersede 

 their teaching; but, on the contrary, it marvels more every 

 day at the wisdom of ancient hygienic commandments, and it 

 is at its best wherever it follows the path of hygiene. 



When all this is said, I do not think that I need to 

 apologise for anything said in these pages concerning the 

 principle of physiological righteousness. More fitting is it 

 for him on whom has fallen the privilege of furthering, to 

 however slight a degree, the uplifting work of the early 

 pioneers of humanity and illuminating again the paths which 

 they indicated and to some extent explored, though equipped 

 with far less powerful apparatus, to take courage from their 

 leadership and the mighty consensus of noble thought in the 

 past, to assert with a firm if modest confidence the principles 

 for which he like them stands, and to use his every endeavour 

 to support the cause of human progress which he like them has 

 ever at heart. 



" Wer den Besten seiner Zeit genug gethan, 

 Der hat gelebt fur alle Zeiten." 



In this spirit Schiller and Goethe laboured for immortal 

 victories of peace. This also was the spirit of Ruskin who 

 prized loyalty so highly loyalty still the same, whether 

 it win or lose the game loyalty to the highest that is in you. 

 It is the same spirit in which, according to Huxley and Butler, 

 the true man of science labours, and which animated Spencer 

 when he used the splendid words: " The highest truth he sees 

 he will fearlessly utter; knowing that let what may come of it, 

 he is thus playing his right part in the world knowing that 

 if he can effect the change he aimed at well; if not well 

 also; though not so well." 



