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ative Idea or the Absolute Mind ; the sphere 

 of the other was Nature; yet both had ulti- 

 mately the same thought, the deepest of the 

 Century, and both spoke even the same word 

 -Evolution, which was now to manifest it- 

 self in every stage of tlie universal Norm, 

 already described. So we may say that the 

 time had come when the Universe itself must 

 reveal its evolutionary phase, which is to re- 

 main the spiritual heritage of the race. It 

 should be added that Darwin by no means 

 traversed the whole field of Nature, but con- 

 fined himself chiefly to its organic stage, nor 

 did he exhaust that. At present there is in 

 scientific investigation a noteworthy trend 

 toward inorganic Evolution. Darwin also 

 started or at least gave a new impulse to 

 what may be called psychic Evolution in Life, 

 which has had such a remarkable development 

 into a new science known as Physiological 

 Psychology. 



Nor should we forget the expression of 

 Evolution in the realm of Poetry, very diverse 

 in form from Science and Philosophy. 

 Goethe's Faust is justly regarded as the 

 poetic masterpiece of the Century, and the 

 latter 's supreme artistic expression, Goethe 

 himself as scientist is deemed one of the 

 precursors of Darwin in organic Evolution. 

 But he was essentially the poet rather than 



