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as certified only to date, with a reservation, at best, 

 of "tentative expectancy" for hope of continuance; 

 (4) that "natural selection," as empirically verified, 

 is a process of cancellation, in the end a selection 

 only to death; and (5) that the Whole alone has 

 the possibility of final survival. The "tentative 

 expectation " founded on the entire sweep of the 

 observed facts, and not extended beyond it, would 

 be that the latest observed survivor — man — is des- 

 tined like his predecessors to pass away, supplanted 

 by some new variation of the Whole, of a higher 

 fitness to it. And so on, endlessly. 



This clear pointing toward the One-and-All that 

 devours all, seems but to gain still further clear- 

 ness when the principles of conservation and of 

 evolution are considered, as they must be, in their 

 inseparable connexion and interaction. They work 

 in and through each other. Conservation and cor- 

 relation of energy, and their "rider" of dissipation, 

 are the secret of the mechanism in the process of 

 natural selection, with its deaths and its survivals. 

 Evolution is the field, and its resulting forms of 

 existence, more and more complex, are the out- 

 come, of the operations of the correlated, con- 

 served, and dissipated energies. Evolution, in its 

 turn, by its principle of struggle and survival, works 

 in the very process of the correlation, dissipation, 

 and conservation of energy. It therefore seems 



