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ceding chapter. We have seen that the continuous adapta- 

 tion, both moral and intellectual, of the community to its 

 environment, involves, as necessary concomitants, both the 

 progressive deanthropomorphization of men's conceptions of 

 Cause, and the gradual change from military to industrial 

 habits of life. And the harmony between the results thus 

 obtained by pursuing two wholly independent lines of 

 inquiry, adds fresh support both to the fundamental law and 

 to its historic ccrollaries. In the very act of proving that 

 Comte did not achieve the whole, we do but place what he 

 <lid achiyve upon a deeper and fii-mer basis. 



