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SUMMARIES 



THE LIMITS OF EVOLUTION 



Evolutional Philosophy : its Two Forms, their unfavourable bear- 

 ing on Human Interests, and the Question of Limits thence 

 arising ........... I 



I. Chasm between the Phenomenal and the Noumenal : 

 Evolution cannot cross it, and does not seriously claim 

 to do so . . . . . . . . ,12 



II. Break, in the Phenomenal World, between the Inorganic 

 and the Organic : Evolution interrupted by it, and 

 compelled to look for its own explanation to some 

 changeless Noumenal Principle ..... 26 



III. Further break between Physiological and Logical Genesis : 



Evolution, which as natural science is a matter of phy- 

 siology or empirical psychology only, incapable of clos- 

 ing this; the only Evolutional Continuum a logical and 

 ideal one ......... 27 



IV. Gulf between the Unknowable and the Explanatory: 



Philosophy, as explanation, should reach the latter, 

 but Evolution, raised into the Principle of philosophy, 

 itself declares that it can only reach the former . . 29 



V. Transit from Nature in general to Human Nature viewed 

 as essentially Reason : this impossible by Evolution; 

 demonstration, in detail, that Human Reason, so far 

 from l)eing the result of Evolution, is required by it as 

 the prior ground through which alone it can exist and 

 be known as pertaining continuously to other things; 

 proof of the strictly ideal character of the Phenomenal 

 World and its evolutional law ..... 30 

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