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once. The examination of large collections, or repeti- 

 tions of similar phenomena, thus suggests that we 

 could not discover from the single case, namely, that 

 besides the general law which says, 'be so and so,' 

 there is another which says, 'be not quite so and so.' 

 Such at least is the superficial impression we get from 

 the facts." (W. H. Sheldon of Dartmouth College). 

 The only meaning of Time is that it is a change in 

 phenomena. Phenomenon itself is a manifestation 

 of movement, in the abstract, and movement is the 

 evolution of nature, with constant variations, and 

 the survival, but for a short fleeting duration, of the 

 fittest. Matter seems to be merely the resistant to the 

 flux of reality, and forms, while they exist, the 

 momentary triumphs of such existence. In this sense, 

 there is a struggle in the inorganic, as well as in the 

 organic. The seeming steps in the onward flow are 

 merely our mental percepts, and concepts, of the solid 

 forms, of which the intellect has a constant apparition. 

 A psychic being, above and greater than intellect, if 

 there could be such, would note, not the steps and 

 states, but the whole movement and struggle, as a 

 movement only. 



FOSSIL DISCOVERIES SINCE DARWIN. "Since the 

 'Origin of Species' was written, our knowledge of that 

 record" (paleontological) "has been enormously ex- 

 tended, and we now possess, no complete volume, it is 

 true, but some remarkably full and illuminating chap- 

 ters. The main significance of the whole lies in the fact, 

 that just in proportion to the completeness of tlie record 

 is the unequivocal character of its testimony to the truth 

 of the evolutionary theory. The test of a true, as dis- 

 tinguished from a false theory, is the manner, in which, 

 the newly discovered and unanticipated facts arrange 



