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not invoke it (and well it is for him that he 

 does not) in accounting for the origin of the 

 species, his unique scientific task and achieve- 

 ment. Meanwhile, however, he unfolds and 

 formulates the leading category of his age, 

 and plants it firmly in the consciousness even 

 of the common people Evolution. 



So there is some thing beyond Darwin ac- 

 cording to Darwin; he is but a stage of his 

 own principle universalized; Evolution must 

 evolve also, according to its own innermost 

 logic, and become a part or constituent of a 

 new and completer Evolution. 



II. 



NATUKE'S EVOLUTION. 



At present the trend of Natural Science 

 sweeps toward expanding, applying, and in 

 a measure reconstructing the Darwinian the- 

 ory of Evolution. It has been carried into 

 fields which Darwin knew not of, and trans- 

 formed in ways of which he probably never 

 dreamed; it has been made universal, it has 

 categorized the age, it has builded itself into 

 the public consciousness. The time was ready 

 and calling for its true utterance, of which 

 various forms had already been given before 

 Darwin. These voices also the true-hearted 

 listener should not fail to hear. 



