and found there analogous variations from which selection might 

 take place and a selecting agency, the operations of which he care- 

 fully studied. The analogy was complete, man selecting from the 

 offspring of a common stock, produces diverse breeds suited to his 

 purposes; nature by the struggle for existence, selects from varying 

 offspring and produces diverse species suited to live under diverse 

 conditions. 



Thus Darwin answered the main question raised in his thinking 

 by performing an experiment. When the question arose: how were 

 species derived from a common origin? Darwin answered it by 

 producing species from a common stock. He then investigated nature 

 and found that it imitated the processes which he had performed in 

 his experiment. 



Darwin in his thinking and in his experiment conceives the 

 things about which he thinks and with which he deals, just as the 

 ordinary man conceives them. Similarities in structure and function, 

 individual variations, the struggle for existence, heredity, and all the 

 other things and functions involved in the theory are such as could 

 be explained to the ordinary man without his changing the character 

 of his conceptions of the things about which he was told. In all 

 cases the things considered are such as are presentable in experience. 

 Pigeons, species, variations, the struggle for existence, all are such 

 things as Darwin could identify in the world about which he was 

 thinking. And when he identified these things, he took them to be 

 just what he found them to be. He took pigeons to be what any man 

 would find them to be who examined them. In no case would his 

 conceptions be disputed, and, if they were, the dispute could be 

 settled by reference to the thing conceived, for it was from this 

 alone that Darwin pretended to draw his iaformation. 



Darwin went to nature as one believing that it would upon investi- 

 gation reveal its own reality. When he made an inference, he made 

 that one which experience had taught him was the most probable 

 implication of the facts from which the inference was made. When 

 a question arose as to what processes existed in nature and what was 

 the consequence of their operation, he went to nature and experiment 

 to determine. And in all his thought and experiment he conceived 

 things to be what they discovered themselves to be in his experience. 



STATEMENT AND ANALYSIS OF HYSLOP'S THEORY OF LIFE 

 AFTER DEATH. 



Belief in a future life implies a belief in supersensible reality and 

 a belief in survival of personal consciousness. 



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