74 DISCRIMINATIONS CHAP. 



accept the fancies lest they should be 

 thought to impugn the facts or to deny 

 admitted and authoritative truths. Yet 

 this is exactly what has happened with 

 the Darwinian theory. The very word 

 "development" was captured by the 

 Darwinian school as if it belonged to 

 them alone, and the old familiar idea was 

 identified with theories with which it 

 had no necessary connection whatever. 

 Development is nowhere more con- 

 spicuous than in the history of human 

 inventions; the gun, the watch, the steam- 

 engine, and our new electric machines 

 have all passed through many stages 

 of development, every step in which 

 is historically known. So it is with 

 human social and political institutions, 

 when they are at all advanced. But 

 this kind and conception of develop- 

 ment has nothing whatever to do with 

 the purely physical conceptions involved 



