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blame even if we can hardly pronounce Nature innocent. 

 There is something wild, untamed in us both. We must get 

 on together, as best we can. But let us never forget that in 

 the end and long run Nature is always on the side of fitness.^ 

 Is it, perhaps, the old story of Gareth and Lynnette? 



Nature is masked, and life is an enigma, always a struggle, 

 frequently a death-grapple in the dark. It is altogether too 

 big and grand for our understanding. Every attempt to re- 

 duce it to a scheme is doomed to failure. Perhaps it was so 

 intended and planned. It always has been and always will 

 be an investment in futures, an adventure; and we would not 

 have it otherwise. In the end, in spite of her jeers, pricks 

 and buffets, Nature is for us, not against us. This is enough. 

 Impavidi progrediamur. Gentlemen-adventurers all. 



Says Bergson: " All the living hold together, and all yield 

 to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on 

 the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, 

 in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside 

 and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge, 

 able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formi- 

 dable obstacles, perhaps even death." ^ 



5 T. 228. 

 ^I 271. 



