GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



CONCERNING EVOLUTION. 



Charles Darwin, supreme biologist of all 

 time, and as we title him, the Hero of the 

 Biocosmos, replying to certain objectors who 

 caviled at his use of scientific terms, replies : 

 "It is difficult to avoid personifying the word 

 Nature," and he seemingly does not try very 

 hard to overcome the difficulty. But why does 

 the mind instinctively speak of Nature as a 

 person, thus endowing it with a psychical 

 element? Does this belong to Nature, or is it 

 forced upon the same from the outside by 

 ourselves ? Here indeed we touch the deepest 

 problem of Nature a problem which she is 

 always bringing up to the surface. Darwin 

 in the same passage goes on to say : " I mean 



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