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Mi:. (JLAPSTOXE AND GENESIS 



a primordial mailer which is at the same time tlie universal 

 it of things. This substance is endowed with a general iv.- 

 or transinutativc force by virtue of which it passes into a 

 succession of forms. They thus resemble modem evolutionists, 

 since they regard the world, with its infinite variety of forms. M 

 issuing from a simple mode of matter. 



Further on, Mr. Sully remarks that " Heraclitus 

 deserves a prominent place in the history of the 

 idea of evolution," and he states, with perfect 

 justice, that Heraclitus has foreshadowed some of 

 the special peculiarities of Mr. Darwin's views. It 

 is indeed a very strange circumstance that the 

 philosophy of the great Ephesian more than julum- 

 hratos the two doctrines which have played leading 

 parts, the one in the development- of Christian 

 dogma, the other in that of natural science. The 

 former is the conception of the Word (Xoyo?) 

 which took its Jewish shape in Alexandria, and 

 its Christian form 1 in that Gospel which is usually 

 referred to an Ephesian source of some five 

 centuries later date ; and the latter is that of the 

 struggle for existence. The saying that " strife is 

 father and king of all " (Tro'Xe/io? iravr^v nev irar^p 

 eVrt, TrdvTtov Be fiao-iXeix;), ascribed to Heraclitus, 

 \\ mild be a not inappropriate motto tor the " ( )ri^iu 



I have referred only to Mr. Sully's article, 

 his authority is quite sufficient for mv 

 But the consultation of any of the more 

 rate histories of Greek philosophy, such as 



^' II- 1: '/' i-init Linii^, ]>. 9 e t seq. 



