LIFE AM) THE ( OSMOfi ! 1 



explanation of origin and fulfillment, to feel it 

 a worthy subjecl of reflect ion. From t bis point 

 of view, however, science need i cf no inter- 

 ference, but without any lasl v< of former 

 shackles may pursue the search after mechan- 

 istic explanations of all natural phenomena 



At length we have reached the conclusion 

 which I was concerned to establish. Science 

 has finally put the old teleology to death. 

 Its disembodied spirit, freed from vitalism 

 and all material ties, immortal, alone li\- - 

 on, and from such a ghost science has noth- 

 ing to fear. The man of science is not even 

 obliged to have an opinion concerning its 

 reality, for it dwells in another world where 

 he as scientist can never enter. 



1 "An evolution is a series of events that in itself M M r i* ■ 

 is purely physical, — a set of necessary occurrences in the 

 world of space and time. An egg develops into s chick; 

 a poet grows up from infancy; a nation emerges from bar- 

 barism; a planet condenses from the Quid state, and develops 

 the life that for millions of years makes it so prondrous s pin 

 Look upon all these things descriptively, and you shall - 

 nothing but matter moving instant after instant, each con- 

 taining in its full description the necessity of ps - into 



the next. Nowhere will there be. for descriptive seien 



any genuine novelty or any discontinuity admissible. Hut 

 look at the whole appreciatively, historically, synthetically, 

 as a musician listens to ■ symphony, as s 

 a drama. Now you shall seem to hs n. in phenoi 



form, a story." — ROYCU, "The Spirit of Modern I'hilosoph; 

 Boston and New York, 1890, 8th ed., p. 1 



