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is limited to the operation of a known 

 evolutionary process, and can be represented 

 as " the infinite sum of all natural forces, the 

 sum of all atomic forces and all ether 

 vibrations," to quote Professor Haeckel 

 {Confession of Faith, p. 78) ; then such 

 philosophers must be content with an 

 audience of uneducated persons, or, if writing 

 as men of science, must hold themselves 

 liable to be opposed by other men of science, 

 who are able, at any rate in their own 

 judgment, to take a wider survey of existence, 

 and to perceive possibilities to which the 

 said narrow and over-definite philosophers 

 were blind. 



Life and Guidance. 



Matter possesses energy, in the form of 

 persistent motion, and it is propelled by 

 force ; but neither matter nor energy possesses 

 the power of automatic guidance and control. 

 Energy has no directing power (this has 

 been elaborated by Croll and others : see, for 



