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alike, the expressions of his boyish and his 

 youthful education, his professional experi- 

 ences ? 



FROM SOCIAL PROGRESS TO NATURALIST 

 OUTLOOK. Once more, then, we insist upon 

 the progress of evolutionary science as from 

 social progress to its naturalist application. In 

 our opening chapter we put this plainly enough, 

 but as it were once for all; thence passing as 

 naturalists into the field, and as biologists into 

 the laboratory and study. Darwin is again the 

 example of this life-history of the naturalist. 

 Malthus once grasped and applied, he drew 

 no more drafts upon political economy, con- 

 sciously at least; and his many disciples and 

 continuators have been no more conscious of 

 their stoutly utilitarian economics than was 

 M. Jourdain of his prose : though of course 

 it has been none the less there all the time. 

 Wallace, indeed, practically alone among 

 Darwinians, and more divergent and original 

 than his generous loyalty has ever allowed 

 him to realize, has kept in touch with the 

 movement of economic thought, and that in 

 later and less canonical schools especially; he 

 has striven to throw light upon other puzzles 

 and controversies, from political to psycho- 

 logical, from geographic to religious; but there- 

 by, despite services to evolutionary biology 



