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Mr. Spencer does not give up his purpose 

 which, indeed, is one of the main 

 purposes of his philosophy namely, to 

 build up sentences and wordy structures 

 which shall eliminate, as far as it is 

 possible to do so, all those aspects of 

 natural phenomena which are human, 

 that is to say, those aspects which reflect 

 at all an intellectual order analogous with, 

 or related to, our own. " I have elabor- 

 ated this criticism," he says, "with the 

 intention of emphasising the need for 

 studying the changes which have gone 

 on, and are ever going on, in organic 

 bodies from an exclusively physical point 

 of view." l And so, new formulae are 

 constructed to explain and to illustrate 

 how this is to be done. "Survival" 

 suggesting the " human view " of life 

 and death must be dismissed. How, 

 then, are they to be described? They 

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