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of biology — Darwin — educated himself; and this from instinctive 

 truant-roamer to eagerly observant and intelligent voyager, before 

 returning with steady patience to the many and fruitful inquiries 

 of his later life, which only then could face a spell of real museum 

 work as with his barnacles, and in laboratory with his insectivorous 

 and moving plants, though finding gardens and fields, stockyards and 

 dove-cotes even more interesting and more productive too. As he 

 matured, he felt more and more the interest of learning much of 

 what he had avoided (and as results showed, rightly) as a student 

 and solitary searcher, since now seeing its frequent values for his at 

 once eager and patient questionings; yet always as a naturalist, 

 generalising as well as specialising on Life. 



In summary then — Life first; and its analyses thereafter. The 

 vast and complex Life-Drama of Organic Nature in Evolution — and 

 in which we ourselves are no mere spectators, but also actors, and 

 throughout our lives — is full of interest in every phase of act, 

 every scene of season, and with its innumerable players ; with their 

 fewer salient t3^e-protagonists and leaders, their laggards too ; and 

 each and all increasingly seen as interacting, with all their develop- 

 ments of characters, towards comedic success, albeit with many an 

 instance of tragic close. Is not all this at once Man's history, past, 

 present, and possible, and that of Organic Life-forms as well? — and 

 so the essential spectacle for sociologist and for biologist alike? 

 Keeping to the latter's terms, here is Ecology and in Evolution; 

 here too we are making out the processes of individual life in 

 Physiology, and even rationalising its Development; so with 

 Phylogeny and Ontogeny intereacting together. As we watch this 

 Life-Drama, we note its forms as species and arrange these, in our 

 list of Dramatis Personae, as our Taxonomy; we scrutinise them in 

 Anatomy, and compare them in Morphology. We look into their 

 general past, and 'even into their individual up-growing, as Palae- 

 ontography and as Embryography. Thus we are at once grasping 

 the essentials of each of our eight sub-sciences of Biology and 

 utilising these; so also with the like eight social sub-sciences, as in 

 our previous graph summary and comparison of all these. 



While occupied with each of these specialised tasks, we can hardly 

 but for the moment lose full consciousness of the others, and yet 

 more of the vast drama ever upon the stage; yet with help of all 

 these, we can ever return to watch it more fully, since now with 

 bettering understanding, deepening appreciation. 



EDUCATION BIOLOGIC VERSUS MECHANISTIC— After all 



is said against post-mortem education, must not we scientific men 

 largely blame ourselves? If our problems, and their applications 

 also, are not realised, is it not because the specialist, after all, is too 

 much but an individualist among others? Let us systematise our 



