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highest explanations of Nature in the 

 analogies of mental purpose and direc- 

 tion. The choice by Darwin of the 

 phrase Natural Selection was in itself an 

 excellent example of its only legitimate 

 meaning. He did not invent either 

 the idea or the phrase of Selection. 

 He found it existing and familiar. He 

 took it from the literature of the farm- 

 yard, of the kennel, and of the stable. 

 He told Lyell that it was constantly 

 used in all books of breeding. It was 

 his own intellectual nature that made the 

 choice, selecting it out of old materials. 

 These materials were gathered out of 

 the experience of human life, and out 

 of the nearest analogies of that natural 

 system of which Man is the highest 

 visible exponent. But Darwin neither 

 saw nor admitted its implications. The 

 great bulk of his admirers have not been 

 exactly in the same condition of mind, for 



