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they too have become sufficiently definite 

 to be entitled to be called scientific. 

 Outlandish Territories may in time be in- 

 corporated as States, but they must make 

 their claim good and become civilised 

 first. 



It is well for people to understand this 

 definite limitation of scope quite clearly, 

 else they wrest the splendid work of 

 biologists to their own confusion, helped 

 it is true by a few of the more robust or 

 less responsible theorisers, among whom 

 are some who should be better informed 

 and more carefully critical in their philo- 

 sophising utterances. 



But, as is well known, there are more 

 than a few biologists who, when taking 

 a broad survey of their subject, clearly 

 perceive and teach that before all the 

 actions of live things are fully explained, 

 some hitherto excluded causes must be 

 postulated. Ever since the time of J. R. 

 Mayer it has been becoming more and 

 more certain that as regards performance 

 of work, a living thing obeys the laws of 

 physics, like everything else; 'but un- 



