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because it does not harmonise with your 

 a priori scheme of what Nature is to be. 

 Such a * scientific ' method, which under a 

 show of humility is that of Darwin and his 

 school, and especially of Weismann, is sim- 

 ply to deny ex cathedra that organic POWER 

 of Nature, which is really above and beyond 

 all denial, merely because you do not under- 

 stand it : it is to make your limited insight 

 and information the standard of Nature's 

 power and possibilities. But Nature laughs 

 at such philosophical incompetence, masquer- 

 ading in the garb of science. What she is, she 

 is : what she can, she can : true Science will 

 hold up to her a pure mirror : but * Science ' 

 which will not, must get another name. Of 

 all amazing scientific assumptions, the most 

 amazing is that which underlies the creed 

 of Darwin and his school : that we are in 

 full possession of all the principles by which 

 Nature is to be explained, and therefore in 



