CHAPTER XIX. 

 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. 



THE Evolution Hypothesis builds on the material 

 cosmos. It looks outward to discover in physical 

 nature a principle of change shaping thought and 

 constituting the law of concrete being. It sees matter 

 and mind cast in one mould and under the same law : 

 it finds one principle dominant throughout experience : 

 it interprets the phenomena of mind in terms of 

 matter and motion and force : it regards reason, con- 

 science, duty, responsibility, emotion, will all mental 

 and moral phenomena as modes of experience 

 determined by physical necessity : it extrudes the 

 Creator of all things beyond the range of intelligence 

 outside the compass of knowledge. A God, of whom 

 man may have even an " indefinite consciousness," 

 there is none in the new philosophy, other than the 

 incomprehensible immanent energy revealed in the 

 universe. That Being comes into the view of reason 

 only in manifestations forming the subject-matter of 

 science, and which philosophy combines in a continuous 

 process. The evolutionist teaches us to see that 

 unbounded Power ceaselessly at work, labouring under 

 the rigid yoke of a* dynamic principle. From an 



