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pean and Oriental mind, and still today he is 

 potent in influence. The man of the present, 

 seeking universality as a counterpoise and 

 corrective of the desperate particularism of 

 the time, cannot do better than take some les- 

 sons from old Greek Aristotle, the first true 

 organizer of the thought of all things and of 

 the All itself. 



In the long interval between Aristotle and 

 Darwin are many noteworthy biologists with 

 important contributions. A history of them 

 shows a continuous undercurrent of evolution 

 toward Evolution as a formulated doctrine. 

 Perhaps the most important and typical of 

 the discoveries in the present field was the 

 circulation of the blood by Harvey. In the 

 sphere of Natural History the name of Linn- 

 aeus stands first as the supreme orderer of 

 plants and animals. He is the author of the 

 so-called binomial nomenclature which gives 

 a name to every natural object in two words, 

 usually Latin, expressing the genus by a noun 

 and the species by an adjective term. For 

 instance the common dog is called Canis fa- 

 miliaris, while the wolf, which is also a dog, is 

 called Canis lupus. Minerals were likewise 

 designated in this way as well as plants and 

 animals. Thus the vast diversity of Nature 

 gets labeled and classified. This must be 

 deemed a great act which endowed science 



