214 Zoology as Related to Evolution. 



and soul, the wonder that fills and overflows this wonder of 

 body consciousness, love, thought, aspiration how they 

 unfolded out of protoplasm with the body, what they root 

 in and what they lead to, all these have got to be studied 

 henceforth in connection with animals are for some future 

 Darwin to make discoveries in as much beyond The Origin 

 of Species as The Origin of Species is beyond the animal 

 pictures that the old Troglodytes drew on their half-eaten 

 bones in the caves of Dordogne and La Madelaine. 



III. Proceeding from the historic and scientific aspects 

 of the subject, we find it unfolding into still another spe- 

 cies of truth, one which in some respects is the most inter- 

 esting and important of all. Evolution is not only a history 

 and a science. It is also a philosophy. It embraces not 

 only facts and causes, but with them reasons asks not 

 only what and how, but, likewise, why. And after giving 

 us in its department of zoology the natural history of ani- 

 mals and the methods and causes of their origin as species 

 and individuals one from another, it is met at once with 

 the further question of why their existence and descent in 

 this way, what the object of the myriads of them that lived 

 and struggled and died before men came on earth, as well 

 as of the myriads that are doing it now a page of Nature 

 written how deep in blood what the philosophy of their 

 different forms, many of them so repulsive and monstrous, 

 and of man's being born out of their loins, as Darwin repre- 

 sents, instead of his coming up directly out of the dust and 

 with a human shape to start with, as theology so long has 

 taught. 



There is doubtless a sense in which animals are their own 

 end, a side of philosophy which must recognize that, like 

 beauty and the multiplication table and man himself, the 

 ugliest beast and the humblest worm are their " own excuse 

 for being." 



" Know Nature's children all divide her care ; 

 The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. 

 While man exclaims, ' See all things for my use.' 

 ' See man for mine,' replies the pampered joose." 



And yet it is not the less true that a secondary purpose, a 

 vein, if not of the old, Paley, watch-maker teleology, yet of 

 practical good sense and of a reason for things, does run 

 everywhere through Nature. And it is this that evolution 



