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it is all-important that we get at the facts, for there are 



n currency many concisions in regard to Nature which 



1 no longer be accepted as well grounded. What we may 



reach can only beprovisiona], for the data of science are 



in process of rap.d change; but there will be some reward 



if we can ehminate some spurious and obsolete coinage 



Whatever be our philosophical interpretation or religious 

 conv.ct.on we do we.l to have more than a passing acqul 

 ance w,th the world without, with the process of wh"h 

 our he part. The aim of this course is to state the 

 eral results of biological inquiry which must be taken 

 account of , we are to think of Nature as a whole and in 

 relat.cn to the rest of our experience. The first part of the 

 course w,.l dea, with the realm of organisms as it is-so far 

 is changefulness permits; the second, with its evolution 

 past, present, and possible. 



SUMMARY. 





unity and continuity in our outlook. 



