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omnipresent for our ken, is to wrest 

 our advantages and privileges from their 

 proper use and apply them to our own 

 misdirection. 



But if we have learnt from science that 

 Evolution is real, we have learnt a great 

 deal. I must not venture to philoso- 

 phise, but certainly from the point of 

 view of science Evolution is a great 

 reality. Surely evolution is not an illu- 

 sion; surely the universe progresses in 

 time. Time and Space and Matter are 

 abstractions, but are -none the less real: 

 they are data given by experience; and 

 Time is the keystone of evolution. ' ' Thy 

 centuries follow each other, perfecting a 

 small wild flower. " 



We abstract from living moving 

 Reality a certain static aspect, and we 

 call it Matter; we abstract the element 

 of progressiveness, and we call it Time. 

 When these two abstractions combine, 

 co-operate, interact, we get reality again. 

 It is like Poynting's theorem. 



The only way to refute or confuse the 

 theory of Evolution is to introduce the 



