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finally furnish its own method, for Nature has 

 to l>e ordered at last by something higher than 

 itself. Still it has asserted its place and func- 

 tion in the grand Totality, chiefly through the 

 work of Darwin, and is no longer to be con 

 temptuously cast out by Religion and Philos- 

 ophy. 



Natural Science with its supreme category 

 of Evolution is not, therefore, the new-born 

 world-discipline, though it be the chief force 

 which is propelling such an idea toward real- 

 isation. It drives us to forecast what will be 

 the dominant thought of the twentieth cen- 

 tury. Already has the question been asked: 

 After Darwin, what? Evolution has shown 

 itself to be one side or part of a greater 

 TThole, which would seem to be next in order. 



If we seek to grasp fully the place of Dar- 

 win or of any epochal genius, we are to see 

 him as the mediator between what may be 

 deemed two extremes : the universal spirit of 

 the Ages which is now to reveal itself in the 

 stage of Evolution, and the popular mind 

 which must be ready to receive such a revela- 

 tion; this, however, has to be formulated and 

 imparted by the mediating Great Man of the 

 time. To use the psychological phraseology 

 already employed: it is the function of the 

 genius of a given domain and time to mediate 

 the Pampsychosis in its special manifestation 



