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things. Within the knowable evolution finds no 

 other exercise of real power. 



Are we again among the keen-eyed thinkers of 

 ancient Greece ? Are we sitting at the feet of 

 Democritus or Epicurus, or listening to their teaching 

 set in the vigorous verse of Lucretius ? We see, as- 

 we have seen with their eyes, the fathomless im- 

 mensity filled far as imagination reaches with the 

 whirling atoms ; we see matter and motion and cease- 

 less physical change occupying the whole field of 

 vision. In the depths of this ocean-stream we seem 

 to live, and move, and have our being. Above us, 

 around us, within us, one supreme, all-ruling, and all 

 prevading law the dynamic principle of the con- 

 tinuous redistribution of matter and motion. 



Into this abyss Evolutionism carries its disciples. 



