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called the ethical process ; the end of which is not 

 the survival of those who may happen to be the 

 fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which 

 exist, but of those who are ethically the best." ^ 



The expedient, to him, was a necessity. Viewing 

 Nature as Mr. Huxley viewed it there was no other 

 refuge. The " cosmic process " meant to him the 

 Struggle for Life, and to escape from the Struggle 

 for Life he was compelled to turn away from the 

 world-order, which had its being because of it. As it 

 happens, Mr. Huxley has hit upon the right solution, 

 only the method by which he reaches it is wholly 

 wrong. And the mischievous result of it is obvious 

 — it leaves all lower Nature in the lurch. With 

 a curious disregard of the principle of Continuity, to 

 which all his previous work had done such homage, 

 he splits up the world-order into two separate halves. 

 The earlier dominated by the * cosmic ' principle — 

 the Struggle for Life ; the other by the ' ethical ' 

 principle — virtually, the Struggle for the Life of 

 Others. The Struggle for Life is thus made to stop 

 at the * ethical ' process ; the Struggle for the Life 

 of Others to begin. Neither is justified by fact. The 

 Struggle for the Life of Others, as we have seen, 

 starts its upward course from the same protoplasm 

 as the Struggle for Life ; and the Struggle for Life 

 * Evolution ajtd Ethics, p. ^t,. 



