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true : " This I dare affirm in knowledge of 

 Nature, that a little natural philosophy, and the 

 first entrance into it, doth dispose the opinion to 

 atheism, but on the other side, much natural philo- 

 sophy, and wading deep into it, will bring about 

 men's minds to religion." ^ Hitherto, the Evolu- 

 tionist has had practically no other basis than the 

 Struggle for Life. Suppose even we leave that 

 untouched, the addition of an Other-regarding 

 basis makes an infinite difference. For when it is 

 then asked on which of them the process turns, and 

 the answer is given * On both,' we perceive that 

 it is neither by the one alone, nor by the other 

 alone, that the process is to be interpreted, but by 

 a higher unity which resolves and embraces all. 

 And as both are equally necessary to the antinomy, 

 even that of the two which seems irreconcilable 

 with higher ends is seen to be necessary. Viewed 

 simpliciter^ the Struggle for Life appears irrecon- 

 cilable with ethical ends, a prodigious anomaly in 

 a moral world ; but viewed in continuous reaction 

 with the Struggle for the Life of Others, it discloses 

 itself as an instrument of perfection the most subtle 

 and far-reaching that reason could devise. 



The presence of the second factor therefore, 

 while it leaves the first untouched, cannot leave its 

 "^ Meditationes Sacrce^ X. 



