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for idealism is the ^spiritual world — that world which 

 our great religious teachers, great poets, and great artists, 

 have constantly sought to reveal. 



I have tried to indicate in this lecture the connection 

 between the work of Charles Darwin and modern 

 idealism, and to show you why The Origin of Sjjecies, 

 so far from giving any support to the mechanistic view 

 of reality, takes us straight in an opposite direction. 

 Who was " on the side of the angels " in the historic 

 discussion at the Oxford meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion ? Was it Charles Darwin, or was it the well- 

 meaning bishops and others who opposed his views ? 

 I think it was Charles Darwin. 



