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the unseen universe of Spirit." 1 Now, however 

 true Mr. Wallace's beliefs about the spiritual 

 world may be, it does seem odd to say that 

 they are a carrying out of the Darwinian theory 

 " to its extreme logical conclusion." One has 

 heard of the young officer who said that Alder- 

 shot was a very nice place to get away from, 

 and of the schoolboy (was he Irish ?) who de- 

 fined sugar as " what makes your tea so nasty 

 when you don't put any in " ; and so we may 

 say that the Darwinian theory supports Mr. 

 Wallace's views, when he gets away from it, 

 and when it is not applied to mental and moral 

 evolution. This " spiritual world," which is 

 postulated in order to account for the moral 

 sense and the higher mathematics, is also to 

 serve as an explanation of " the marvellously 

 complex forces which we know as gravitation, 

 cohesion, chemical force, radiant force and 

 electricity, without which the material universe 

 could not exist for a moment in its present form, 

 and perhaps not at all, since without these 

 forces, and perhaps others which may be termed 

 atomic, it is doubtful whether matter itself could 

 have any existence. And still more surely can 



1 Ibid. p. 478. 



