76 DISCRIMINATIONS CHAP. 



general idea of development is a concep- 

 tion which remains untouched whether 

 we believe, or do not believe, in any par- 

 ticular hypotheses which may profess to 

 explain its steps. 



Mr. Spencer, then, adopts an excel- 

 lent method when he insists upon dis- 

 criminations such as these between 

 very different things jumbled together 

 and concealed under loose popular 

 phrases. But, unfortunately, he fails 

 to pursue this method far enough. 

 There is great need of the farther 

 application of it to his own language. 

 He tells us that Darwinism is to be 

 carefully distinguished from what he 

 calls " organic evolution." Darwinism 

 he defines in the phrases of its author. 

 But organic evolution he does not 

 define so as to bring out the special 

 sense in which he himself always uses 

 it. On the contrary, he employs words 



