CELL-LIFE. 



pels the teleologic view with heat, even with 

 bitterness. But we hold it to be his chief ex- 

 cellence that he does not altogether know 

 what he is about; if he did he would not be 

 the true scientist ; he could not be the desper- 

 ate investigator, if he saw that what he was 

 really investigating was the Uninvestigable 

 (called by Goethe Das Unerforschliche). Dar- 

 win revealed Evolution with unparalleled in- 

 dustry and power; but he was unwittingly 

 evolving Darwin as the grand end of evolu- 

 tion. He saw, indeed, Evolution, but he was 

 unconscious of what he had really evolved, 

 namely, the evolver of evolution as the crown 

 and summit of the whole evolutionary pro- 

 cess. Quite unknown to himself he had 

 evolved an evolution which could go back to 

 the start as well as forward to the finish. But 

 consciously he clung to his limit and so he 

 could, as pure scientist, watch and formulate 

 Evolution proper. 



Another aspect of cell-life may be men- 

 tioned in this connection. As the cell per- 

 forms the primal generative act of life, here- 

 dity must be transmitted through it from par- 

 ent to child. All the inheritances of the race, 

 it would seem, have to make this cellular pass- 

 age. All the species of the earth, plant and 

 animal, have their unitary germ in this weo 

 protoplasmic dot, out of which unfolds the 



