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of time had come for just such a thought, and 

 it was Darwin who rendered it the spiritual 

 possession of the race. He it was who made 

 us aware of the evolutionary idea of the All- 

 Self (Pampsyehosis), not its only idea by any 

 means, still one of its ideas, peculiarly that of 

 his epoch. Darwin was truly the child of his 

 time ; he could not have done his task in any 

 other period or in any other country but Eng- 

 land ; the age had to whisper to him its evan- 

 gel and the folk-soul had to be prepared for 

 listening. Whereof something will be told 

 more fully in a later chapter. 



IV. 



THE PHYSICAL AND THE PSYCHICAL. 



Repeatedly has it been expressed that Na- 

 ture is inherently dual, the second or separ- 

 ative stage in the process of the Universe. 

 Evolution manifests this dualism in its own 

 way, perpetually striving to overcome it, yet 

 always dropping back into it again. Hence 

 Evolution has the appearance of a struggle 

 between two forces, an inner and an outer, 

 neither of which can altogther conquer the 

 other. 



In all Life, micro-organic as well as macro- 

 organic, in the smallest unicellular organism 

 as well as in the largest multicellular organ- 



