220 EVOLUTION 



opening treatment of this parallelism and that 

 with which we now draw to a close. Bio- 

 logical evolution as projection of a social philo- 

 sophy, be this conscious or unconscious, and 

 the resultant renewal of Nature studies as 

 observant and inductive in the field, are alike 

 the expression of that wisely passive mood 

 in which, with naturalist as with poet, " we 

 see into the life of things." But man is born 

 to labour also; his hands have made him wise; 

 the complex brain not merely or mainly 

 growing up in vacuo or hi abstracto, nor even 

 in encyclopaedia, as one school of educationists 

 after another has falsely thought and wrongly 

 applied, but as we now begin to see and to 

 apply, in intimate interaction also with the 

 skilful and strenuous hand. Science, no less 

 than fine art, is essentially of the working class. 

 Like art it is craft-experience, craft-skill, craft- 

 initiative, for the scientist more reflective, as for 

 the artist more impassioned. Science is always 

 observing, inquiring blundering therefore 

 also with the prentice ; is hi fact a perpetual 

 apprentice; yet skilled, and that a degree 

 beyond the customary journeyman specu- 

 lative, experimental, inventive, with the best. 

 Furthermore, Science is experienced, critical, 

 comprehensive, with the master, and hence of 

 such service to his large undertakings. True, 



