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part of its own total science. And we may 

 add that Evolution does not stop with Darwin 

 but takes a fresh start. If his own principle 

 be applied to himself, he too must evolve still 

 further. And this is what has happened. 



The considerable details of biological his- 

 tory we cannot here enter upon; only the 

 mountain peaks of the science we shall at ? 

 tempt to bring into one view, that our reader 

 may catch a glimpse of the complete Biocos- 

 mos, as we see it. 



I. ARISTOTLE. We shall begin with an Ego 

 which was not merely biological but was uni- 

 versal, elaborating not the science of Life 

 alone, but all science, yea the science of the 

 All. Doubtless of the great men who have 

 ever lived, Aristotle best deserves the title of 

 Genius Universal. In his works is grasped 

 and formulated the universe with its triune 

 process of God, Nature, and Man. This he 

 did of course in his way, which is that of the 

 Thinker, the Philosopher. Upon his thought 

 is stamped every phase or part of the great 

 All with equal fullness and favor. In him 

 the ideal and the real are equally at home 

 and harmonious; his mind conjoins and me- 

 diates in one process the Particular and the 

 Universal. But that which we may especially, 

 celebrate here is that he united the metaphy- 

 sician and the scientist in one complete per- 



