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and it is not a tale of battle. It is a Love- 

 story. 



The circumstances, as has been already pointed 

 out in the Introduction, under which the world at 

 large received its main impression of Evolution, 

 obscured these later and happier features. The 

 modern revival of the Evolution theory occurred 

 almost solely in connection with investigations in the 

 lower planes of Nature, and was due to the stim- 

 ulus of the pure naturalists, notably of Mr. Darwin. 

 But what Mr. Darwin primarily undertook to ex- 

 plain was simply the Origin of Species. His work 

 was a study in infancies, in rudiments ; he em- 

 phasized the earliest forces and the humblest phases 

 of the world's development. The Struggle for Life 

 was there the most conspicuous fact — at least, on 

 the surface ; it formed the key-note of his teaching ; 

 and the tragic side of Nature fixed itself in the 

 popular mind. The mistake the world made was 

 two-fold : it mistook Darwinism for Evolution — 

 a specific theory of Evolution applicable to a 

 single department for a universal scheme ; and 

 it misunderstood Mr. Darwin himself That the 

 foundations of Darwinism — or what was taken for 

 Darwinism — were the foundations of all Nature was 

 assumed. Dazzled with the apparent solidity of 

 this foundation, men made haste to run up a 



