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from the general doctrine of develop- 

 ment, with which, nevertheless, it is 

 habitually confounded. It is quite as 

 true that even if Mr. Spencer's theory 

 of organic evolution were disproved 

 and abandoned, the general doctrine 

 of development would remain unshaken, 

 as it is true that organic evolution would 

 survive the demolition of the Darwinian 

 theory of Natural Selection. 



The great importance of these dis- 

 criminations lies in this that both the 

 narrow theory of Darwin, and also the 

 wider idea of organic evolution, have 

 derived an adventitious strength and 

 popularity from elements of conception 

 which are not their own elements of 

 conception, that is to say, which are 

 not peculiar to them, but common to 

 them and to a much larger idea a far 

 wider doctrine which has a much more 

 indisputable place and rank in the facts 



